Quotes About Useless

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

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

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe

about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 8o to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful.

Worry pretends to be necessary, but serves no useful purpose.

80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful

I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person.

Too idle to work, too proud to beg, the mercenaries were accustomed to a life of rapine: they could rob with more dignity and effect under a banner and a chief; and the sovereign, to whom their service was useless, and their presence importunate, endeavored to discharge the torrent on some neighboring countries.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Rather the flight of the bird passing and leaving no trace Than creatures passing, leaving tracks on the ground. The bird goes by and forgets, which is as it should be. The creature, no longer there, and so, perfectly useless, Shows it was there -- also perfectly useless. Remembering betrays Nature, Because yesterday's Nature is not Nature. What's past is nothing and remembering is not seeing. Fly, bird fly away; teach me to disappear.

one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, not as the ultimate horizon of all humanly produced meaning. That is to say: to restore sex in its dimension of the Real.

Still, real information continued to drip out – often tucked away in scientific papers that went unnoticed, such as when a German research institute reported in mid-April that lockdowns had been broadly useless. Yet – more than two months after they began – the lockdowns continue. Only Alaska has gone

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.