“It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.” — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
“Maybe I am a coward. In facts, it is much better than open my big mouth and say useless things.” — Shim Steward Copy Share Image
We think we need so many useless things, when all we really need is time to breathe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products. — Simone Giertz Copy Share Image
Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat. — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Life is short and temporary. Make sure you do what is worth doing. Forget pointless and useless things that waste your time — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
“There are only two perfectly useless things in the world,” he quipped. “One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Cats are great. They don't talk about useless things. Or do them. Nothing is cuter. They are something that don't exist in… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
“In spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; In summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If… — Mu-mon Copy Share Image
“ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS...How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking...asking useless things...whatever… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
“He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Forgive me, I have yet to introduce myself.” The Human spread his arms expansively and bowed in his chair. He made grand… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“On the dresser was a row of blue-and-white jars that weren't very useful for anything. They'd been left to her mother by… — terry pratchett Copy Share Image
“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Keeping it real is not about speaking the truth. It's about not giving a damn if others do it or not. It's… — Josh Q Copy Share Image
“Within twenty years at the most, he reflected, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I was a very good dribbler as a young player, but now that I've got more experience, there are some useless things… — Sadio Mane Copy Share Image
“Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful.” — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
“I'm me, and what the hell can I do about it! ... I, the solemn investigator of useless things...” — Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
![“Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/afb/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_abstract_science-only-means-knowledge-and-for-gre_734948.jpg)
