Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. — Anatole France
I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,'… — Pope Francis
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin
When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful.… — Diane von Furstenberg
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. — John Kenneth Galbraith
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. — Charles de Gaulle
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally… — Edward Gibbon
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? — Vincent Van Gogh
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. — Nikolai Gogol
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy… — Michael Gove
Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal… — Amy Grant
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is… — Graham Greene
I find humming is very useful. — Elvis Costello
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his… — William Cowper
You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. — Claire Danes
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. — Guy Debord
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration… — David Deutsch
I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to… — Beth Ditto
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing… — Cory Doctorow

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