Useless Quotes

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It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless. — Austin O'Malley
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten… — Zhuangzi
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological… — Richard Dawkins
Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful,… — Alexis Carrel
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of… — James R Newman
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the… — Michael Ignatieff
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually… — Aaron Swartz
Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play… — Italo Calvino
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later… — John Desmond Bernal
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty,… — Peter Abelard
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection.… — J R Ward
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid… — Charles Inglis
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be… — Lewis Fry Richardson
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may… — Vincent de Paul
We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for… — C.S. Lewis
O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We… — Antonin Scalia
The elderly are useless eaters. — Henry A. Kissinger
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.… — Walter Pater
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself. — Nikki Giovanni

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