Quotes About Use

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

What kind of a God makes bodies and forbids you to use them?

Curiosity about the world and how people create, use, and access information should fuel our practice.

Es una desgracia esto de tener que servirse uno de las cosas —pensó Augusto—; tener que usarlas, el use estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. La función más noble de los objetos es la de ser contemplados. ¡Qué bella es una naranja antes de comida!

My favorite cabinets to use are manufactured by Sunco.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour -- white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

If you hold a real weapon in your hand, you will feel its character strongly. It begs to be used. It is fearsome. Its only purpose is death, and its power is not just in the material from which it is made but also from the intention of its makers.

power is easier to obtain and harder to use or even to keep.

The Chinese or their government are not the smartest people of our generation. It was only their better use and understanding of industrialization that brought them into the limelight or competition in the race for superpowers.

It follows that there are two ways for the nature and use of human power to change. One is that an order might issue from the palace, a command unto the people saying 'It is thus.' But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light should each send a new message. When the people change, the palace cannot hold.

and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is one of unequal distribution.)

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Writing became a tool I used to digest my life and understand, finally, the grace, the gratitude I could feel, not because everything was hunky-dory, but because we can use everything we are.

You rented an apartment with its own escape route?" "I did," Z says. "It's not so paranoid when you use it to do just that.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so.

Somente no mundo real do céu, descobri um uso para o faz de conta. Um benefício da ficção: leva sua mente para fora da realidade, quando a sua realidade é perturbadora.

I don't know. I mean, what else is there to do? People might say I'm wasting my life, but it's all relative. If I was a lawyer, I'd go to fucking law school - but I'm not. I'm a drug addict and so, what do I do? Use, right?

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

What is nature? An encyclopedic systematic index or plan of our spirit. Why should we be content with the mere catalogue of our treasures—let us examine them for ourselves—and work with them and use them in diverse ways.

Reason, therefore, demonstrates that external events do not depend on us, but that it is our own business to use them in this way or the opposite, having received reason as a judge and an investigator of the manner in which we ought to meet those events that come from without. 6.

The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.