Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask:… — Unknown Author
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. — Paul Schrader
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does… — Kurt Vonnegut
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It… — B.F. Skinner
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack… — Lewis Thomas
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit,… — Lucy Irvine
I think Enda Kenny has shown himself to be a good leader in the sense that he can accept that people might have differences of… — Lucinda Creighton
We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need… — Barack Obama
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the… — John Maynard Keynes
It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living, that free scope… — John Stuart Mill
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels. — Mary Robinson
Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is… — Ruhollah Khomeini
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's… — Chuck D
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils… — Howard Zinn
Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio… — Ludwig von Mises
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The… — Adolf Hitler
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,… — Saint Augustine
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops… — David Whyte
The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral… — Jeff Cooper
Take what's useful, discard what is not. — Bruce Lee
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value… — Tim Benton
All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs,… — Sogyal Rinpoche

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