Useless Quotes - Page 13

• It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Truth, Hate, Should

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

  Francine Mathews

  Wisest

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• Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws--hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit--is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Spiritual, Health, Medicine

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• I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Morning, Two, Insane

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• A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Excursions and Poems: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.147, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
  Take up the battle. Take it up.
  It’s yours. This is your life.
  This is your world.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Giving

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• I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful.

  Alistair Begg

  Grace, Made

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• Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Play, Would Be

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Firsts, Different

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• Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1228, Delphi Classics

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• I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless

  Claude Pepper

  Tired, People, Toothless

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• These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

  John Fowles

  God, Religious, Prayer

  John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.223, Random House

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• I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.

  Hermann Goring

  People, Might, Knees

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• My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Giving, Pirate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Vote, Instinct

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.146, Penguin

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• In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

  Heath Ledger

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Taken, Past

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• There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

  Benjamin Carson

  Doors, Useless Knowledge, Knows

  "Interview with Dr. Ben Carson on Education". TheBestSchools.org Interview, thebestschools.org.

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• A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Unnecessary, Taxes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Speech, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• Quantum entanglement allows you to send information faster than light, which upset Einstein. But Einstein has the last laugh. The information you send on quantum entanglement is random, useless information. So Einsein still has the last laugh.

  Michio Kaku

  Light, Laughing, Upset

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• Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Military, War

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• It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, People, Climate

  Interview with Ed Finn, www.slate.com. February 6, 2015.

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• Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We're so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I'm speaking from experience; I'm not above all this.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Home, Guitar

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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