best quotations about
Usefulness |
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Quotations
 | A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 14 likes |
 | I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 9 likes |
 | There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is the President of the Republic. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 7 likes |
 | When smashing monuments, save the pedestals – they always come in handy. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 7 likes |
 | For everyday life, genius is as useful as a giant telescope in the theater. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 6 likes |
 | The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 5 likes |
 | The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 5 likes |
 | Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 5 likes |
 | A useless life is an early death. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
 | Being a useful man always seemed to me something very hideous. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Théophile Gautier, 1811-1872, French poet & writer 3 likes |
 | Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 3 likes |
 | The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 1 likes |
 | The wise person would rather see others needing him than thanking him. |
 | So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use. |
 | People who think that they are being “exploited” should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: “Good riddance”? |
 | Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. |
 | People value you for your usefulness, regardless of your worth. |
 | The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. |
| Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly. |
 | No man is useless while he has a friend. |
 | Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. |
 | Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. |
 | Every drop in the ocean counts. |
 | The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. |
Latin Quotes
 | Abuse does not cancel use. Abusus non tollit usum. (misuse of something is no argument against its proper use) 23 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Wise is he who knows useful things, not he who knows many things. Χρήσιμ’ ειδώς ουχ ο πολλά ειδώς σοφός. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 15 likes |
