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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. — Abu Bakr

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice
without knowledge is dangerous. — Confucius

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson

Knowing something and acting on it are not the same thing. Knowledge without the application of what has been learned is useless. — Peter James West

He must have gotten all that knowledge from the newspapers. I don't see the point, collecting all that knowledge others have already discovered. — Janne Teller

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all. — Jim Hinckley

Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge, — Tony Reinke

Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community. — Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise — Beth Moore

Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But — Yuval Noah Harari

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand — Oscar Wilde

Knowledge without understanding is useless. — Thucydides

Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever. — David Jeremiah

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe — Etienne Gilson

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry. — Samuel Johnson

A day without gratitude, kindness, and compassion,
is a day full of useless action. — Debasish Mridha

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

Knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing. — Lianne Downey

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. — Michel Foucault

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test. — Henry Ford

There's nothing more useless than a mind filled with someone else's thoughts. — Laurie Gray

Knowledge is useless until it's coupled with action. — Susan Cain

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing. — Seneca The Younger

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? — Carlos Castaneda

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. — Owen Feltham

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own. — C.E.M. Joad

Books without the knowledge of life are useless. — Samuel Johnson

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur. — Samuel Johnson

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. — Henry David Thoreau

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask. — Robin Wasserman

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you. — Benjamin Carson

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. — Bertrand Russell

Knowledge gained is as useless as pride
if filed away and never applied. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge. — Ivan Panin

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery. — Margaret Deland

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. — Albert J. Nock

Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world. — Andrea L'Artiste

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians — Patrick Ness

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. — Andre Dubus

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat. — Graham Greene