Useless Quotes

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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not… — Francois Rabelais
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and… — Francisco Goya
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds,… — Robert Aris Willmott
I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple of days, but if there was no more pink lipstick… — Nicki Minaj
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. — Alfred Adler
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. — Crystal Eastman
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. — Alfred North Whitehead
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense… — George F. Kennan
Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan. — Carol S. Dweck
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to… — Samuel Johnson
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice. — Rick Warren
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are… — John Calvin
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. — Charles Bukowski
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and… — Samuel Johnson
Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is… — Evelyn Underhill
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to… — Hesiod
If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that. — Rahul Gandhi
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the… — Ai Weiwei

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