Useless Knowledge Quotes

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Will to Doubt

“The two things most universally desired are power and admiration. Ignorant men, as a rule, only achieve either by brutal means, involving the acquisition of physical mastery. Culture gives a man less harmful forms of power and more deserving ways of making himself admired.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Will to Doubt

“A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Will to Doubt