#useless knowledge

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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