Utterly Useless Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to… — Vernon Howard
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
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly… — William Blake
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless,… — Bertrand Russell
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless… — Henry Mayhew
The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble --… — Philip Connors
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained… — Don Cupitt
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being. — Peter Mullan
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in… — Storm Jameson
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is… — Charles Darwin
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself… — Theodore Roosevelt
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I… — Jennifer Donnelly
As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget… — Bill Watterson
..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have… — Paulo Coelho
It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they… — Charles D. Broad
I have stood by, confounded and speechless, while others have projected their stories over my narrative, each an excuse to appear helpful while remaining utterly… — Molly Johnson
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story… — Jack Vance

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