"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."

Knowledge, Body, Culture, May

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"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."

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"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."

Opinion, Pride

"I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off."

People, Acquaintance

"As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything."

Life, Failure, Cheerfulness, Discontent

"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

Diplomacy, Secrets

"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

Cultural, Culture, Learning

"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."

Money, Power, State

"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too."

Knowledge, Error, Learning, May

"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."

Knowledge, Body, Culture, May

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

Knowledge, Force, Opinion, Public

"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."

Prejudice, Years

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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Ignorance is the darkest depths."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Curiosity is a daring faith."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!"

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Reading the timeless stories strengthen my spirit in times of suffering."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Reading, Story, Spirit, Suffering