If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all Votes: 3
SocratesEconomics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. Votes: 2
John Kenneth GalbraithEducation without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. Votes: 2
C. S. LewisMy puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself. Votes: 2
Nina ContiHave nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. Votes: 2
William MorrisWhile we're in the dream, these are useful notions. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellHallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. Votes: 0
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoPlayfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking. Votes: 0
Richard StallmanYuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. Votes: 0
William KristolYoung people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources. Votes: 0
Santosh KalwarGenre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinFor information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible. Votes: 0
Heather BrookeThe nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives. Votes: 0
Henry A. KissingerArmaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. Votes: 0
John Ralston SaulLaboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisTact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining Votes: 0
Julian BurnsideThere is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. Votes: 0
Louis BachelierGenre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. Votes: 0
Walter Jon WilliamsThings that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple. Votes: 0
Mikhail KalashnikovTrue education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiAgriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man Votes: 0
George WashingtonSome things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going. Votes: 0
Kate TempestEverything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonIt is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. Votes: 0
John Stuart MillWrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. Votes: 0
Augustus De MorganWriting about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardBeing a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireNothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWe are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union. Votes: 0
Martti AhtisaariA mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. Votes: 0
Lucien FebvreStrong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. Votes: 0
Mark RippetoeIn all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. Votes: 0
George OrwellThe asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. Votes: 0
Donna FarhiThe Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciArt is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently. Votes: 0
Tania BrugueraLies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later. Votes: 0
R. K. MilhollandPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanThe lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people. Votes: 0
Frank ZappaIf you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. Votes: 0
Swami SatchidanandaWhat praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. Votes: 0
David HumeEvery man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterAmong intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. Votes: 0
SallustIn summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination. Votes: 0
David HarsanyiAn error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. Votes: 0
Yevgeny ZamyatinInstrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciItâs useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war. Votes: 0
Bill GatesRational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyThere are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. Votes: 0
Arthur PhillipsIn the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithIntelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower. Votes: 0
Thomas A. StewartThe clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovThe Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. Votes: 0
Gary WolfYour services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. Votes: 0
Rowan AtkinsonInsecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade. Votes: 0
Brandon BoydChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Votes: 0
Francis BaconIt was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. Votes: 0
Leon Battista AlbertiTrue charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Votes: 0
Emanuel SwedenborgExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianWe give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeThe only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonIn my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. Votes: 0
Nicholson BakerYou want to do things you're passionate about but also are useful to other people. Votes: 0
Elon MuskToday a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. Votes: 0
Grenville KleiserI can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. Votes: 0
Peter GreenawayA bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff. Votes: 0
Henry A. KissingerLaws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauI'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful. Votes: 0
Big BoiNice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanI have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. Votes: 0
Joe MurrayA lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. Votes: 0
Criss JamiConscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind. Votes: 0
Andrew WeilWithout free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Votes: 0
Charles BradlaughAll new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators. Votes: 0
Dean DeBloisCharles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful. Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsC'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThere are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. Votes: 0
Kevin SpaceyWhatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature. Votes: 0
Guthrie GovanConcentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. Votes: 0
Arnold BennettFew are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhy would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. Votes: 0
Rob PikeAds get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow. Votes: 0
Susan WojcickiI have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless. Votes: 0
Erlend LoeLearning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that. Votes: 0
Andrew WeilWhat I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... Votes: 0
Michelle ObamaIsn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful? Votes: 0
Pietros ManeosSome men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyMen seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. Votes: 0
Giacomo LeopardiI am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. Votes: 0
John CameronThe grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeMake yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing. Votes: 0
Julia StilesSeeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour. Votes: 0
Henry AllinghamThe State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeFrom the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. Votes: 0
Mary McLeod BethunePeople got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world. Votes: 0
Natalie BabbittIf a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinPower and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live. Votes: 0
Henry FordOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0
Henri-Frédéric AmielOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielI think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality. Votes: 0
Jaume Collet-SerraI wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it. Votes: 0
Paul Dudley WhiteI'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful. Votes: 0
Enid BlytonI'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs. Votes: 0
Araya RasdjarmrearnsookIn the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Votes: 0
Henri PoincareThe enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful. Votes: 0
James D. SassIt is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit. Votes: 0
James W. LoewenThe study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. Votes: 0
Henry AdamsI've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerLabour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. Votes: 0
Henry FordEven a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. Votes: 0
Cormac McCarthySometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped. Votes: 0
Sonia SotomayorThe most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamThe fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. Votes: 0
Pramoedya Ananta ToerIt isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine. Votes: 0
Hafsat AbiolaIf your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanTo reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Votes: 0
Saint Teresa of AvilaArguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerYou ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. Votes: 0
EpictetusTo reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaTechnology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master. Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyBe passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. Votes: 0
Satya NadellaIt is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. Votes: 0
John Burnham SchwartzEntropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. Votes: 0
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiOur toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . . Votes: 0
Edward GibbonRipe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. Votes: 0
Ida TarbellIn religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerEsperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with. Votes: 0
George SorosOver the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. Votes: 0
Larry WallI think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings. Votes: 0
Bill KellerGod is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollIt may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage. Votes: 0
David GalulaI'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! Votes: 0
Romola GaraiIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. Votes: 0
Alan PerlisIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". Votes: 0
Alan PerlisGetting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestDo something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now. Votes: 0
Bob BemerI got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful. Votes: 0
Manoj BhargavaI learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. Votes: 0
Paul GiamattiIt is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. Votes: 0
Stanislaw UlamIts useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIt's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettThe most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Votes: 0
AntisthenesLife is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. Votes: 0
Dan MillmanTo me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. Votes: 0
Man RayIn highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today. Votes: 0
Noga AlonDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop Votes: 0
Charles de GaulleKnowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off. Votes: 0
Nicky GumbelDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Votes: 0
Charles de GaulleClay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. Votes: 0
LaoziAll men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. Votes: 0
ZhuangziDon't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoIn art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. Votes: 0
Maurice de VlaminckYou know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it. Votes: 0
Sharon CreechJust as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn. Votes: 0
Israelmore AyivorEvery combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. Votes: 0
Robert SheaIn many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability. Votes: 0
Rob HopkinsAs with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced. Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltHe has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. Votes: 0
HoraceLiterature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. Votes: 0
Theophile GautierThe beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. Votes: 0
Victor HugoBasic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. Votes: 0
Luc MontagnierThe purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinBe praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. Votes: 0
Francis of AssisiShe had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasThe useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject. Votes: 0
Walter RaleighCensorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. Votes: 0
G. D. H. ColeWhile knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. Votes: 0
Herbie HancockPoets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeWe can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it Votes: 0
Oscar WildeIf you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool. Votes: 0
Colin PowellTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerTo be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be. Votes: 0
Marc JacobsNow that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThe destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last. Votes: 0
Josephus DanielsI think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. Votes: 0
Margaret SpellingsNo matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value. Votes: 0
Benjamin HoffOur laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't. Votes: 0
Cullen HightowerData by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit. Votes: 0
Todd ParkBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonRalph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. Votes: 0
Alexandre DumasAlways think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. Votes: 0
Nikolai GogolIt won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... Votes: 0
Larry WallLove is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Votes: 0
Booker T. WashingtonIt is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action. Votes: 0
Joe SaccoA man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Votes: 0
Walter LippmannBut a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now. Votes: 0
Stewart D. FriedmanOn the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldI come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. Votes: 0
John TeshTo remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleUntil we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. Votes: 0
Stephen KingWhen friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. Votes: 0
Anatole BroyardIf the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them. Votes: 0
Mark TwainAre you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanA pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Votes: 0
Joan DidionHard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonI believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly. Votes: 0
Adam MichnikTo think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. Votes: 0
Victor HugoHe foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleThe wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. Votes: 0
John Godfrey SaxePlease yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others. Votes: 0
Paul LaseauA party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. Votes: 0
Shintaro IshiharaReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerNever forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile. Votes: 0
Adelaide HasseI feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again. Votes: 0
George CarlinIt is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. Votes: 0
EpictetusThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassThere is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass. Votes: 0
Lawrence GiustinianiHow can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. Votes: 0
Bertolt BrechtI go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink. Votes: 0
Dorothy ParkerWhen it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name. Votes: 0
Vilfredo ParetoMy most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. Votes: 0
Michael CaineYou will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen. Votes: 0
John AdamsThe theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful. Votes: 0
Mary-Louise ParkerI can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another. Votes: 0
Barbara Brown TaylorIf you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonDo you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinYou're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. Votes: 5 Rowan Atkinson
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful. Votes: 5 Jacques Delors
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. Votes: 6 Nate Silver
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Votes: 6 Sam Houston
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Votes: 6 Booker T. Washington
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. Votes: 3 Nick Park
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. Votes: 6 Nick Park
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion. Votes: 4 Robert Fulton