Quotes About Useless

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

Hamlet's a dull fuck of a story where a fellow stands around lamenting how useless he is even to his own self, and then there's one pansy swordfight and it's over. The only good part of that is what he nicked from Kit's Dido.

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless..

There are actually three kinds of mind: one kind grasps things unaided, the second sees what another has grasped, the third grasps nothing and sees nothing. The first kind is extremely valuable, the second valuable, the third useless.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous. Confucius, LúnyÅ­ (Analects), ii. 15

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being not even wrong. Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type.

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

the environment is now transmitting less and less useful information, and more and more that is entirely useless. 2009

I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

I was so privileged I was acquiring the most useless graduate degree imaginable.

What use am I?...How can I help feeling stings of conscience when I know that I am a useless burden on the earth?

As jurist Marshall also noted, "the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

In a garden of clutter, nothing would grow There would be no butterflies, only clutterflies And heaps of disarray, every which way No nourishment anywhere, not anything pruned Just lots of useless stuff, everywhere strewn

No anatomist ever discovered a system of organization, calculated to produce pain and disease; or, in explaining the parts of the human body, ever said, this is to irritate; this is to inflame; this duct is to convey the gravel to the kidneys; this gland to secrete the humour which forms the gout: if by chance he come at a part of which he knows not the use, the most he can say is, that it is useless; no one ever suspects that it is put there to incommode, to annoy, or torment.

The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.

MAN'S thoughts can be likened to a lawn, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; however whether cultivated or unnoticed, it need to, and could, bring forth. If no beneficial seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and could maintain to supply their kind.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one's advice on marriage useless … or useful.