Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a… — Michael Faraday
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we… — Johannes Kepler
The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling… — Kathy Sierra
Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it… — Kenneth C. Davis
Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to… — Francine Rivers
I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful. — Big Boi
I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where… — Christopher Alexander
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding… — Idries Shah
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing… — Grace Slick
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful. — Richard Stallman
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not… — Henry Cisneros
Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature. — Guthrie Govan
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we… — Seneca the Younger
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion,… — Charles Kingsley
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more… — Samuel Johnson
The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests… — Kevin Myers
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful. — Jacques Delors
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. — Luc Montagnier
Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful. — Timothy Keller
You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL! — Laura Fitton
Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to… — Charles Clarke
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. — Charles Lamb
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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