We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
“Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose… — Zhang Zhao Copy Share Image
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in… — Colin Gunton Copy Share Image
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of… — Eugenie Clark Copy Share Image
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
