Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. — Elizabeth Fry
Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is… — Laozi
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ. — Robert Baden-Powell
Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with… — Helen Keller
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards… — Eric Hoffer
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . .… — Albert Schweitzer
Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is… — Arthur Brisbane
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He… — Alvin R. Dyer
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are… — Le Corbusier
...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that… — Donald Knuth
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset,… — Richard Stallman
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little… — Immanuel Kant
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination… — Kenny Smith
Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the… — Wilhelm Wundt
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... — Michelle Obama
Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful… — Jerry I. Porras
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some… — Alphonsus Liguori
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,… — Oscar Wilde
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one… — Zhuangzi
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter… — Todd Solondz
The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's… — Chris Sanders
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for… — Dale Carnegie
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. — Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the… — Vassily Ivanchuk
It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting… — Mark Dvoretsky

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