 The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones.  The Medical World - Page 4321902Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones. The mind expands, we are told ; large information generates larger and nobler thoughts. We must look... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - English essays - 1872 - 492 pages
...knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones. The mind expands, we are told; larger information generates larger and nobler thoughts. Is it so ?... | |
 | R. H. Andrews - Medicine - 1915 - 452 pages
...knowledge; the only knowledge that has life and growth in it and converts Itself in| to practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones. — Froude. PROFITABLE OFFICE SPECIALTIES A. DALE COVEY, MD Author of Secrets of Specialists, the Non-Surgical... | |
 | Sir George Murray Humphry - Medicine - 1879 - 66 pages
...knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones1." It is a hopeful feature of our time that teaching is now occupying the serious attention... | |
 | R. H. Andrews - Medicine - 1915 - 436 pages
...knowledge; the only knowledge that has i life and growth, in it and converts Itself in|to practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops oft the stones. — Froude. PROFITABLE OFFICE SPECIALTIES A. DALE COVEY, MD Author of Secrets of Specialists,... | |
 | John Milner Fothergill - 1881 - 88 pages
...knowledge; the only knowledge which possesses growth and vitality and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones.' Some varieties of information may be safely left in the library, and it is quite enough for the busy... | |
 | Robert Galloway - Science - 1881 - 488 pages
...knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones." That examinations as a rule are well conducted, few, I think, connected with teaching will venture... | |
 | 1883 - 780 pages
...knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones." arithmetical problems—as thoroughly as possible the conditions under which combinations and decompositions... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1883 - 782 pages
...knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones." I have stated that I believe — and I speak with some considerable experience — we commence the... | |
 | John Milner Fothergill - Diagnosis - 1883 - 216 pages
...; the only knowledge which possesses growth and vitality and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones.' Some varieties of information may be safely left in the library, and it is quite enough for the busy... | |
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