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Usefulness Quotes by John Cheever
- The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
- The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and…
More Usefulness Quotes
- Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant
- We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn… — Wilfred Trotter
- If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz
- Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new… — Matthew Simpson
- The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability… — Dennis Weaver