Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. Votes: 5
C. S. LewisA mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. Votes: 4
Lucien FebvreInsecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade. Votes: 4
Brandon BoydIn art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. Votes: 4
Maurice de VlaminckThe beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. Votes: 4
Victor HugoEconomics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. Votes: 3
John Kenneth GalbraithNice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. Votes: 3
Neil GaimanYour services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. Votes: 3
Rowan AtkinsonGenre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. Votes: 2
Walter Jon WilliamsI am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. Votes: 2
John CameronDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Votes: 2
Charles de GaulleA pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Votes: 2
Joan DidionWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Votes: 2
Frederick DouglassWhile 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 RaoYuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. Votes: 0
William KristolPlayfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking. Votes: 0
Richard StallmanGenre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinYoung people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources. Votes: 0
Santosh KalwarFor 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. KissingerLaboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisThere is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. Votes: 0
Louis BachelierTact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining Votes: 0
Julian BurnsideArmaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. Votes: 0
John Ralston SaulThe most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonSome 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 JeffersonWrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. Votes: 0
Augustus De MorganTrue 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 WashingtonIt is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. Votes: 0
John Stuart MillThings that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple. Votes: 0
Mikhail KalashnikovWhat praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. Votes: 0
David HumeIntelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower. Votes: 0
Thomas A. StewartIf you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. Votes: 0
Swami SatchidanandaThe clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovEvery 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
SallustThe lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people. Votes: 0
Frank ZappaLies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later. Votes: 0
R. K. MilhollandThe 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 BrugueraThe Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. Votes: 0
Gary WolfIn the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithIn summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination. Votes: 0
David HarsanyiThe asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. Votes: 0
Donna FarhiAn error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. Votes: 0
Yevgeny ZamyatinPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanStrong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. Votes: 0
Mark RippetoeNothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauItâs useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war. Votes: 0
Bill GatesBeing a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireWe are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union. Votes: 0
Martti AhtisaariWriting about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardThere are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. Votes: 0
Arthur PhillipsRational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyIn all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. Votes: 0
George OrwellInstrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciWhy would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. Votes: 0
Rob PikeConcentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. Votes: 0
Arnold BennettWhat I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... Votes: 0
Michelle ObamaA bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff. Votes: 0
Henry A. KissingerAll new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators. Votes: 0
Dean DeBloisC'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyLaws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauLearning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that. Votes: 0
Andrew WeilConscious 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 BradlaughI have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless. Votes: 0
Erlend LoeA wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. Votes: 0
Criss JamiI'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful. Votes: 0
Big BoiThere are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. Votes: 0
Kevin SpaceyI have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. Votes: 0
Joe MurrayAds get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow. Votes: 0
Susan WojcickiA lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezFew are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature. Votes: 0
Guthrie GovanFor the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianThe only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonIt was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. Votes: 0
Leon Battista AlbertiCharles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful. Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsIsn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful? Votes: 0
Pietros ManeosChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Votes: 0
Francis BaconWe give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeTrue 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. ChestertonIn my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. Votes: 0
Nicholson BakerI can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. Votes: 0
Peter GreenawayYou 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 KleiserThe most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamGetting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". Votes: 0
Alan PerlisIt 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 AvilaDo something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now. Votes: 0
Bob BemerThe fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. Votes: 0
Pramoedya Ananta ToerEntropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. Votes: 0
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiArguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerI think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings. Votes: 0
Bill KellerIt is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. Votes: 0
John Burnham SchwartzOur 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 WallGod is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollYou ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. Votes: 0
EpictetusBe passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. Votes: 0
Satya NadellaIt may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage. Votes: 0
David GalulaTechnology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master. Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyI'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! Votes: 0
Romola GaraiTo reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. Votes: 0
Alan PerlisSometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped. Votes: 0
Sonia SotomayorSome men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyIf a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinThe grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeIn the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Votes: 0
Henri PoincareI'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs. Votes: 0
Araya RasdjarmrearnsookFrom the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. Votes: 0
Mary McLeod BethuneI'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful. Votes: 0
Enid BlytonMen seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. Votes: 0
Giacomo LeopardiI wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it. Votes: 0
Paul Dudley WhiteIt is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit. Votes: 0
James W. LoewenI think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality. Votes: 0
Jaume Collet-SerraOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0
Henri-Frédéric AmielMake 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 AllinghamPower and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live. Votes: 0
Henry FordThe State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThe enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful. Votes: 0
James D. SassPeople got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world. Votes: 0
Natalie BabbittI'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 McCarthyThe study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. Votes: 0
Henry AdamsWhile knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. Votes: 0
Herbie HancockAs 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
HoraceClay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. Votes: 0
LaoziLiterature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. Votes: 0
Theophile GautierMy puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself. Votes: 0
Nina ContiIt's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIn highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today. Votes: 0
Noga AlonCensorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. Votes: 0
G. D. H. ColePoets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeIts useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIt is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. Votes: 0
Stanislaw UlamI got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful. Votes: 0
Manoj BhargavaThe useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject. Votes: 0
Walter RaleighShe had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasBasic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. Votes: 0
Luc MontagnierI learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. Votes: 0
Paul GiamattiBe praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. Votes: 0
Francis of AssisiThe purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinAll men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. Votes: 0
ZhuangziThe most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Votes: 0
AntisthenesYou know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it. Votes: 0
Sharon CreechTo me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. Votes: 0
Man RayLife is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. Votes: 0
Dan MillmanDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop Votes: 0
Charles de GaulleDon't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoJust 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 SheaKnowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off. Votes: 0
Nicky GumbelIn many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability. Votes: 0
Rob HopkinsUntil we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. Votes: 0
Stephen KingHard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonWhen friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. Votes: 0
Anatole BroyardWe can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it Votes: 0
Oscar WildeAre you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIf the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them. Votes: 0
Mark TwainNo matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value. Votes: 0
Benjamin HoffIf you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool. Votes: 0
Colin PowellIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. Votes: 0
Alexandre DumasThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Votes: 0
Booker T. WashingtonLove is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerTo remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleAlways think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. Votes: 0
Nikolai GogolTo be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be. Votes: 0
Marc JacobsRalph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithA man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Votes: 0
Walter LippmannBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonData by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit. Votes: 0
Todd ParkNow 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 DanielsHave nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. Votes: 0
William MorrisI think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. Votes: 0
Margaret SpellingsIt is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action. Votes: 0
Joe SaccoIt won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... Votes: 0
Larry WallThe act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now. Votes: 0
Stewart D. FriedmanOur laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't. Votes: 0
Cullen HightowerBut a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. Votes: 0
John TeshOn the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldI believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly. Votes: 0
Adam MichnikReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonNever 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 CarlinHe foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleA party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. Votes: 0
Shintaro IshiharaThe wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. Votes: 0
John Godfrey SaxeTo think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. Votes: 0
Victor HugoIt is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. Votes: 0
EpictetusPlease yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others. Votes: 0
Paul LaseauThe 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 ParetoThere is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass. Votes: 0
Lawrence GiustinianiI go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. Votes: 0
Jane AustenHow can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghMy most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. Votes: 0
Michael CaineGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. Votes: 0
Bertolt BrechtYou 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 what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all Votes: 0
SocratesDo 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 GuinIf 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. Chesterton