Quotes About Usefulness

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Utility is most men's test of worth.

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Holiness and usefulness are linked together.

The hungry can't eat your tears. The poor can't spend them. They're no comfort to the afflicted and they don't bring the wicked to justice. Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

And let us remember, too, that one does not have to have the prestige of the world to be greatly used in the Kingdom of God.

There is no place in the Kingdom for a slacker, for such an attitude not only precludes any growth in grace and knowledge but also destroys any usefulness on the world battlefield of evangelism.

Una vida tranquila de reclusión en el campo, con la posibilidad de ser útil a aquellas personas a quienes es fácil hacer el bien y que no están acostumbradas a que nadie se preocupe por ellas. Después trabajar, con la esperanza de que sirva para algo; luego el descanso, la naturaleza, los libros, la música, el amor al prójimo… En eso consiste mi idea de la felicidad.

A quiet secluded life in the country with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor—such is my idea of happiness.

To put Mr. Rockefeller's name prominently forward Ã¢â'¬Â¦ would impair the usefulness of the work.

But nobody had been interested in inert and prosaic things like crowbars.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

La gente registra la convinzione, tipicamente barbara, che il passato è utile solo quando e dove può diventare, immediatamente presente.

A new master's course was being offered in community relations. He read the short paragraph extolling the usefulness and topicality of this course. He wondered whether it would help, or whether it was no more than an aspiration—a course in what might be, but wasn't. But at least they were trying; at least they were not instituting a new master's programme in cynicism and indifference.

His eye fell on an advertisement inserted by the university. A new master's course was being offered in community relations. He read the short paragraph extolling the usefulness and topicality of this course. He wondered whether it would help, or whether it was no more than an aspiration—a course in what might be, but wasn't. But at least they were trying; at least they were not instituting a new master's programme in cynicism and indifference.

The commonplace notion that presumes measurements are exact quantities ignores the usefulness of simply reducing uncertainty, especially if eliminating uncertainty is not feasible (as is usually the case).