Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on. — Benjamin Franklin
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience. — Pope Francis
In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but… — Pope Francis
I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation… — Seth Godin
On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook,… — Anthony Bourdain
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it… — Eckhart Tolle
To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements… — Dalai Lama
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are… — Dominique de Menil
Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus… — Gregory Maguire
Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. — Eric S. Raymond
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to… — Seth Godin
Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy. — Martin Bormann
The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The… — Emanuel Lasker
Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that… — Aleister Crowley
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider. — Leonardo da Vinci
I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if… — Charles Spurgeon
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man — George Washington
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary… — Klemens von Metternich
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. — Lucien Febvre
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things — Abraham Lincoln
In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that… — Dalai Lama
There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with,… — Harrison Ford

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