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Usefulness Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- 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…
- 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…
- A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
- To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result…
More Usefulness Quotes
- The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. — John Cheever
- Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant
- Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been… — Booker T. Washington
- I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to… — George Orwell
- We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe
- So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden… — Gene Tunney
- The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn… — Wilfred Trotter
- Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and… — William Penn
- If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley