Worthless Quotes - Page 14

• Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

  George Iles

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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• It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

  Sarah Palin

  Demand, May, Down And

  Resignation Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2009.

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• Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

  Darrin Patrick

  Past, Worry, Moments

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• ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Men, People

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• My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, 'I am happy. Peace, it is wonderful.' One simply watches, one says, 'Yes, a white cloud passing.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Moving, White

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• From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.

  Caryl Phillips

  Reading, Home, Writing

  Caryl Phillips (2010). “A New World Order”, p.192, Random House

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• A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

  Theodore W. Parker

  Pleasure, Poor, Worthless Life

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• I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

  Burton Malkiel

  Past, Example, Investing

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• My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

  James McBride

  Years, America, Parent

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

  Nicky Oppenheimer

  Psychological Needs, Diamond, Needs

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• The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as the latter would end in a total anarchy of the state, the former would end in a worthless religious nihilism.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Struggle, Nihilism

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jewels, Pebbles, Priceless

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• One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

  Oswald Spengler

  Honor, Enemy, Doe

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson 1880 (1928). “The decline of the West”

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• Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Sweet, Effort, Suffering

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• The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should be cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ...This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Fashion, Dark, Fda

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• Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it

  Steve Pavlina

  Sacrifice, Growth, Ifs

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• Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

  Tom Schulman

  Thinking, Dead Poets Society, Embarrassing

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• Insight without action is worthless.

  Marie Forleo

  Action, Insight

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• There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

  Amir Butler

  Determination, Mean, Self

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• I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.

  R. J. Anderson

  Long, Grace, Cosmos

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.291, Carolrhoda Lab

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• All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

  Boies Penrose

  May, Tests, Economic

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• Those who cling to worthless idols
  turn away from God’s love for them.
  9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,
  will sacrifice to you.
  What I have vowed I will make good.
  I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’

  Jonah

  Grateful, Sacrifice, Idols

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• Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  People, Mind, Enemy

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.127, Tharpa Publications US

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• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Dream, Expression, Evil

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• Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Italian, Fake

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