Quotes About Useful

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

Somewhere, thought Scholscher, in some remote thicket, the corpse of a man was probably rotting away so that his legend might be useful to a cause, an ideology.

Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength

If you are possessed by the desire to be useful for God on this earth, He will honor you, you will prosper and your life will be a testimony of success

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

È utile (e inutile allo stesso tempo) ripetere che luoghi e nomi sono inventati di ràdica. A chi potrebbe lamentare qualche coincidenza, ricordo che la vita stessa (assai superiore, in fatto d'invenzioni, alla fantasia) non è che una pura coincidenza.

The memory of useful things may receive considerable aid, if they are thrown into verse.Watts'sImprovement of the Mind. Your patrimonial stores in peace possess;Undoubted all your filial claim confess:Your private right should impious power invade,The peers of Ithaca would arm in aid.Pope'sOdyssey,b. i.2.

When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world.

Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

a man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

One of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.