Useless Quotes

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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to… — Samuel Wilks
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.… — Yvon Chouinard
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay… — Eckhart Tolle
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. — Westbrook Pegler
From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords… — Miyamoto Musashi
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.... — John Marshall
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish… — Mark Twain
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for… — Thomas More
'He means well' is useless unless he does well. — Plautus
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. — Sathya Sai Baba
If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder:… — Sun Tzu
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. — Herophilos
Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself,… — Oswald Chambers
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their… — Aristotle
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position... — Thucydides
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. — Tom Stoppard
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of… — Francis of Assisi

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