Usefulness Quotes

180 Usefulness quotes by 152 unique authors

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice… — John Ruskin
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is… — Lewis Thomas
During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its… — Thomas Jefferson
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of… — Armond White
Don’t think innovation, think usefulness. — Chris Guillebeau
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him… — William Graham Sumner
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency… — John of Damascus
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy… — Corliss Lamont
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are… — Mary Wollstonecraft
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad… — Dallin H. Oaks
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful. — Gerry McGovern
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... — Alfred Korzybski
My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought… — Alexander McQueen
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness. — Marlin Fitzwater
How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the… — George Crabbe
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in… — David F. Houston
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. — B.K.S. Iyengar
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors. — Charles de Gaulle
Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance… — Neil Postman
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness. — Laozi
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of… — Eric Temple Bell
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the… — Eric Temple Bell

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