Useful Quotes

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)… — John Green
Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so… — H. L. Mencken
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your… — Seneca the Younger
I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous… — Harrison Ford
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. — Rebecca West
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. — Rowan Atkinson
Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. — Mandell Creighton
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. — Ambrose Bierce
Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. — William Kristol
It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are. — Unknown Author
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace
It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities… — P.J. O'Rourke
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim… — Mark Twain

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