#useless

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

#gone #higher #him #his #history

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

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#change #over #things #useless #we cannot

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#answers #give #only #useless #you

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#because #calls #counsel #effect #force

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#become #boyfriend #easy #good #house

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#few #few things #i #know #lot

Music is essentially useless, as is life. ↗

— George Santayana

#life #music #useless