Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings are… — Emmet Gowin
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would… — Horace
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the… — Maria Montessori
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is… — Maria Montessori
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. — Henry David Thoreau
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — Isaac D'Israeli
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an… — Samuel Johnson
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals. — Benoit Mandelbrot
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions… — John F. Kennedy
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann
Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose. — Eric Hoffer
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and… — Mark Twain
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.… — Oscar Wilde
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep… — Robert Breault
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. — Lois McMaster Bujold
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save. — Andre Gide
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father. — Saadi
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;… — Samuel Johnson
Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so… — Dalai Lama

Who Wrote These Useful Quotes

1,250 authors contributed a total of 1,790 Useful Quotes, led by these top contributors: