Futile Quotes

257 quotes by 220 authors

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. — Abu Bakr
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party… — Tony Blair
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own… — Albert Camus
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain… — Graydon Carter
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is… — Hideki Tojo
The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if… — Boniface Wimmer
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Perpetual peace is a futile dream. — George S. Patton
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. — Caspar David Friedrich
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other… — Nikola Tesla
In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing… — T. Harv Eker
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable. — Tim Field
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg
If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior… — Adolf Hitler
Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the… — Rajneesh

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