Fruitless Quotes

84 quotes by 80 authors

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,… — Conrad Black
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like… — John Updike
Revenge is fruitless. — Janet Morris
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when… — Benito Mussolini
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. — Napoleon Hill
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a… — Roger Zelazny
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful… — Hasan of Basra
All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest… — Steven Morrissey
I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little… — James McAvoy
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with… — Gautama Buddha
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the… — Plato
As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not. — Gautama Buddha
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I… — Stanley Kubrick
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail. — Kabir
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. — Matthew Henry
If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me. — John Bunyan
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and… — Francois Fenelon

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