I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology. — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution,… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much… — William James Copy Share Image
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized.… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
