 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 raindrops off the stones.  The Medical World - Page 1151892Full view - About this book
 | James Anthony Froude - 1886 - 616 pages
...millionnaire's catechism, which he will believe when he is a millionnaire himself ? 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1887 - 604 pages
...FROUDB that "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...about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones." True to the idea herein enunciated the author has endeavored to select from all the divisions... | |
 | 1887 - 598 pages
...the time, for you have been greatly profited with matters of practical worth. "The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge— the only knowledge which possesses growth and vitality, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like... | |
 | 1887 - 654 pages
...the time, for you have been greatly profited with matters of practical worth. "The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge— the only knowledge which possesses growth and vitality, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like... | |
 | Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene - 1889 - 158 pages
...involved apply to women with equal force, so far as scholastic teaching is concerned. Froude writes: " The knowledge that a man can use is the only real...about the brain, or dries like rain-drops off the stones." Herbert Spencer writes: "We are guilty of something like a platitude, when we say that throughout... | |
 | Charles Winfield Scott - 1895 - 222 pages
...years of human life. CWS BOSTON, Mass., October, 1895. KEY NOTES OF HEALTH, AND A Century of Life. The knowledge that a man can use is the only real...converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dnst about the brain, or dries like rain drops off the stones. — Froude. CHAPTER I. Delusions of... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1895 - 148 pages
...into deeper peace. Says Froude : " The knowledge which man can use is the only real knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like mist about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones." The same rule applies in all our longings.... | |
 | 1900 - 994 pages
...among his students during the early years of his teaching. The passage reads: " 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1900 - 1006 pages
...among his students during the early years of his teaching. The passage reads: " 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... | |
 | Joseph McDowell Mathews - Medical ethics - 1902 - 258 pages
...much like the brook, they will "go on forever." The ' ' Book-worm " Doctor. — Froude wrote : ' ' The knowledge that a man can use is the only real...dust about the brain or dries like rain-drops off the stones." Nothing should be encouraged more than the reading of good books. The studious man is apt... | |
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