Useful Quotes

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. — Frederick Douglass
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is… — Freeman Dyson
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as… — Sylvia Earle
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself… — Charles William Eliot
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed… — Tom Felton
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure… — Joshua Foer
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. — Henry Ford
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. — Herbie Hancock
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are… — James Hillman
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. — Christopher Hitchens
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of… — Khaled Hosseini
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. — Sam Houston
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the… — Victor Hugo
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. — Victor Hugo
When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing. — Penn Jillette
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. — Joseph Joubert
Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think… — Michio Kaku
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul… — John Maynard Keynes
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. — Stephen King
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're… — Jonathan Kozol
If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good… — Emeril Lagasse

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