Usefulness Quotes

180 Usefulness quotes by 152 unique authors

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may… — Eugenie Clark
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. — Cleveland Abbe
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. — Evan Esar
Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its… — Craig S. Keener
The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness.....Bibles are… — James McHenry
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while… — Amelia Bloomer
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself… — Theodore Roosevelt
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for… — Theodore Roosevelt
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human… — Brigham Young
Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay… — Donald Laird
If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in… — Ralph W. Moss
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962… — Richard Ernst
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to… — Alfred Korzybski
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. — Walter Savage Landor
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for… — Thomas Merton
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. — Richard M. Nixon
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by… — Peace Pilgrim
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my… — Jose Saramago
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to… — Woodrow Wilson

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