Useless Quotes

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You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that… — Kim Stanley Robinson
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting… — Umberto Eco
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without… — Florence Nightingale
It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority.… — Murasaki Shikibu
I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as… — Meryl Streep
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. — Charles I of England
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress… — Henry Ford
Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings,… — Thomas More
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading… — Cheryl Strayed
It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. — Edward Gibbon
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without… — Richard Bach
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In… — Adrienne Rich
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a… — George Horace Lorimer
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views… — James M. Barrie
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when… — Emma Goldman
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image… — J C Ryle
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown. — J C Ryle
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history… — John Flavel

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