 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 1371903Full view - About this book
 | 1892 - 420 pages
...leave here with comparatively little real practical knowledge. Froude says : " 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... | |
 | 1881 - 852 pages
...I.— SEMEIOLOGY. By J. MILKER FOTHERGILL. An historian of our time has said, " 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... | |
 | 1890 - 438 pages
...of s,tudy, attention should be given chiefly to the practical, at the expense of the ornamental. " The knowledge that a man can use is the only real knowledge that has life and growth in it and converts itself iuto practical power. The rest hangs like dust about... | |
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