Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I… — Regina Spektor
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How… — Victor Hugo
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's… — Jefferson Davis
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the… — William Tecumseh Sherman
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is… — Ernest A. Fitzgerald
That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow… — Samuel Johnson
God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story. — Louie Giglio
I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people… — Myles Horton
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful. — John Stuart Mill
HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that… — Ambrose Bierce
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. — Will Shetterly
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to… — Plato
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the… — Gwynne Dyer
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. — Mark Rippetoe
Always desire to learn something useful — Sophocles
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable… — Jane Grigson
I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and… — Ibn Ata Allah
When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and… — Jack Donovan
One other specific piece of guidance we've offered is that low-quality content on some parts of a website can impact the whole site’s rankings, and… — Amit Singhal
No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the… — Henry Chesbrough
People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80’s. You are… — Unknown Author
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be… — Jamais Cascio
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that… — Eileen Myles
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made… — Plato
Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they… — Unknown Author

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