4 Quotes & Sayings By Albert J Nock

Albert Jay Nock (August 10, 1887 – March 1, 1946) was an American author and historian of ideas. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, to a family that supported the Confederacy during the American Civil War, he grew up in Washington and Virginia. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Virginia in 1911, his M.A Read more

in 1912, and his LL.B. in 1914, all with honors.

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It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. Albert J. Nock
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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
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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