Useless Quotes

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Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation. — Louise Hay
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. — Albert J. Nock
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team,… — Franz Beckenbauer
I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality,… — Jerry Seinfeld
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on… — Baron d'Holbach
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the… — Indra Devi
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. — Alfred North Whitehead
Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the… — William George Jordan
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it. — Minnie Driver
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the… — Fernando Pessoa
Intention without action is useless. — Caroline Myss
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so… — Charles Baudelaire
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,… — G. H. Hardy
Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain. — John Calvin
Ideas without action are useless. — Helen Keller
Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you… — Stephen Fry
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is… — Henry Ford
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do… — Walter Lippmann

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