Useful Quotes
1790 quotes by 1294 authors
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
— Aristotle
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
— Rowan Atkinson
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other…
— Charles Babbage
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
— Francis Bacon
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth…
— Johnny Ball
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the…
— William Bartram
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Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
— Scott Adams
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
— Mortimer Adler
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week…
— Arnold Bennett
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Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing…
— Annie Besant
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful,…
— Manolo Blahnik
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows…
— Edward de Bono
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
— Charles Bradlaugh
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than…
— Louisa May Alcott
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful…
— Alan Alda
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
— Michael Caine
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