Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for… — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies! — William Golding Copy Share Image
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Slide decks are only as great as their giant, useless appendixes, so make sure yours has a ton of useless, not even… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
