Useful Quotes

"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."
-Voltaire

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
-Aristotle

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw

"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience."
-George Washington

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."
-Seneca

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-Seneca

"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful."
-Sallust

"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art."
-Sallust

"I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living."
-Booker T. Washington

"The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself."
-Victor Cousin

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
-C. S. Lewis

"In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work."
-Milton Friedman

"We wanted it to be useful to everyday New Englanders, ... We have the town common, weve got the Kennedy family, we have Revolutionary War heroes, we have great mills, we have New England inventors ... But then we have the very new - we have biotechnology and the computer industry."
-David Watters

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."
-Bertrand Russell

"It's hard to get through a day without a child feeling some type of frustration. Yet, parents typically do such a poor job teaching children how to express anger in a healthy way. I provide parents with many useful tips for learning to prevent and manage a child's anger."
-Toni Schutta

"The teachers need to be trained in using the materials, and the kind of training we do helps them in understanding how to use multiple sources ? not just ours, but in other parts of their work. So it's a useful process for them to go through."
-Alan Levenstein

"What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us."
-Julia Cameron

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
-Louisa May Alcott

"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."
-Freya Stark

"This can be very useful and appropriate for people who are still dealing with the aftermath of the hurricane since there is no cost to the resident to get rid of their garbage at the sites."
-Dan Robertson