Logo
The universitys business is the conservation of useless knowledge

The universitys 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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

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

Category:
Knowledge

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. – Andrew Coyle Bradley

Category:
Knowledge

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. – Tom Jenkinson

Category:
Knowledge

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. – Kong Fu Zi

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America. – John Conyers

Category:
Health

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent – important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership. – Eliot Spitzer

Category:
Leadership

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didnt think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. – Tim Robbins

Category:
Imagination

A development deal is where theyre giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that theyll put an album out. – Taylor Swift

Category:
Money