Useless Quotes

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Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless. — Ovid
Suspicion is most often useless pain. — Samuel Johnson
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. — Chuck Jones
What is simple is false and what is not is useless. — Paul Valery
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among… — Nathanael Emmons
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that… — Bill Bryson
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to… — Thomas B. Macaulay
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions. — David Hume
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless. — Sivananda
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we… — Charles Caleb Colton
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse… — Willis R. Whitney
...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide… — Muhammad Yunus
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I… — Henri Matisse

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