Usefulness Quotes
180 quotes by 155 authors
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
— John Cheever
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are…
— Richard Courant
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who…
— Booker T. Washington
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I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at…
— George Orwell
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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
— Ann Radcliffe
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality…
— Gene Tunney
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his…
— William Penn
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that…
— Thomas Huxley
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It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of…
— Louis Agassiz
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Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
— Dimitris Mitropoulos
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The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature…
— Herbert Turnbull
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Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all…
— Matthew Simpson
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The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on…
— Dennis Weaver
Who Wrote These Usefulness Quotes
155 authors contributed a total of 180 Usefulness Quotes, led by these top contributors: