Best 259 quotes in «useless quotes» category

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. [...] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

Living's heavy work, but off to one side the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.