TOPIC
AUTHOR
Close
Search
Close
Search
Close
Search
Close
Search
EVENTS
MEMBERS
LOGIN
SIGN UP
Quotes
Topics
Pictures
Questions
Authors
Blog
About
Terms
Privacy
Sitemap
Get in Touch
Advertise
Removal Request
Subscribe
Contact Us
Social
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Pinterest
Close
Submit Quote
Latest Quotes
Browse our latest quotes
Topic List
Categorized list of quote topics
Famous Authors
Alphabetical list of influential authors
Picture Quotes
Custom and user added quotes with pictures
Quotes
Questions
Submit Quote
Albert J Nock Quotes & Sayings
Showing search results for "Albert J Nock" sorted by relevance. 500 matching entries found.
Related Topics
Physics
Universe
Mistakes
New Beginnings
Serial Killer
Doing Your Best
Self Worth
Diligence
Rebellion
Science
Information
Humor
Determination
Values
Achievement
Get Over It
Masonic
Simplicity
Conscious
Show more
Understanding
Christianity
Freemason
Luck
Philosophy
Leadership
Happiness
Concern
Selfishness
Engineering
Life
Self Actualization
Creativity
Spiritual
Life
Funny
People
Strength
Individuality
Generosity
Altruism
Fame
Solitude
Loneliness
Immortality
Beauty
Mystery
Funny
Catastrophe
QUOTES
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
Sponsored Links
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.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
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
0 Likes
Sponsored Links
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J Nock
1 Likes
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Albert J Nock
1 Likes
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.
Albert J Nock
1 Likes
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
Albert J Nock
2 Likes
Sponsored Links
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
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.
Albert J Nock
2 Likes
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
0 Likes
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
Sponsored Links
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
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.
Albert J Nock
1 Likes
The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
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.
Albert J Nock
0 Likes
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
0 Likes
1
2
3
4
...
25
TRENDING
TRENDING TOPICS
Apr 26
Answers
Babies
Blame
Breakup
Busy Life
Comfort
Criticism
Dating
Free Speech
Funny
Give Me Strength
Independence
Law And Lawyers
Modesty
Negative Life
Osama Bin Laden
Poets
Punishment
Responsibility
Secrets
ABOUT
Terms
Privacy Policy
Removal Request
Sitemap
Contact Us
OUR GOAL
Our goal is to help you by delivering amazing quotes to bring inspiration, personal growth, love and happiness to your everyday life.
© 2024 SearchQuotes™