Useful Quotes

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. — Oscar Wilde
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it… — David Filo
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and… — John Templeton
Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can… — Marcus Aurelius
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by… — Takuan Soho
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of… — Noah Webster
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those… — B.F. Skinner
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history… — John Quincy Adams
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. — Annie Dillard
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in… — Rupert Sheldrake
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth… — Samuel Johnson
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not… — Isaac Asimov
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be… — Charles Kettering
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but… — Aldo Leopold
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation… — Alan Watts
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the… — George McGovern
... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences. — Roger Bacon
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful… — Jan Hein Donner
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have… — Julian Sanchez
If you want to stay youthful, stay useful. — Harvey Mackay
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly.… — Maria Bartiromo
Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful.… — Jhumpa Lahiri
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and… — Aristotle

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