Useless Facts Quotes

#1. Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." "But the Solar System!" I protested.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. I'm a history major, baby. I know tons of useless facts

Elle Kennedy

#4. Useless Facts About Vodka (How dare you, there's nothing useless about vodka) Vodka does have an expiration date and will most likely go bad after 12 months. Sad but true. No matter, the stuff is usually gone in 12 hours anyways. Until

Daniel Ganninger

#5. not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.' 'But

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration.
'I have a mind like a magpie's, easily distracted by interesting odds and ends,' Ramses admitted.

Elizabeth Peters

#7. Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.

Dan Millman

#8. Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason - for insurance against later regret.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel]ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

Emma Donoghue

#10. Facts without context are like individuals without society. Just as an individual must find his or her place in society or else they are useless, a fact must find its place in an argument or else it serves no true purpose.

Tom King

#11. Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

Guy Pearce

#12. The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

Nirmala Srivastava

#13. We are all works in progress, the authors of our own lives.

Caroline James

#14. Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

Henry Mayhew

#15. The best year so far as for me when I am a children it's when I finish school and start doing something else which is more useful... Games are useful, aren't they?
Facts also, aren't they?
... Aren't they?

Deyth Banger

#16. There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

Frida Kahlo

#17. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it. But to-day we are expected to write pages of facts, while the truth is simply this: "There was a king.

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.

Hilda Van Stockum

#19. Maybe I am a coward. In facts, it is much better than open my big mouth and say useless things.

Shim Steward

#20. Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

Henry A. Kissinger

#21. The fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage ...

Sylvia Pankhurst

#22. This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#23. Facts from politicians are like Muligans from the devil - useless.

Frank Coyle

#24. Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.

Cindy Ann Peterson