Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,… — Thomas Jefferson
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie." — Paulo Coelho
May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while… — George Washington
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state… — James Madison
May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and… — George Washington
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source… — Alexander Hamilton
There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made… — Alexander Hamilton
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A… — Alexander Hamilton
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. — Washington Irving
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike
I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is...The arrangements were mine. They were little… — Linda Ronstadt
I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to… — Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the… — Norman Douglas
The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do… — Gary Talley
If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other… — Rodney Crowell
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people,… — James Taylor
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably… — James Taylor
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be… — Christopher Peterson
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because… — Jamie Zawinski
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself! — Manuel Neuer
We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information… — Darrel Ray

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