Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? — Aprilynne Pike
Information is only useful when it can be understood — Muriel Cooper
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and… — Vladimir Lenin
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy
Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that… — Geri Larkin
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the… — Samuel Williams
Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay… — Donald Laird
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value. — Benjamin Hoff
Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining… — Stephanie S. Tolan
Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason… — Carroll Smith
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. — Criss Jami
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful… — Criss Jami
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature… — Albert Einstein
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided… — Christian Nestell Bovee
More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
But that which is useful is the better. — Marcus Aurelius
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality,… — E. M. Forster
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be… — Abraham Flexner
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises,… — Carl Jung
If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. — Swami Satchidananda
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he… — Gore Vidal
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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