But Useful Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about But Useful
But Useful Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational But Useful quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
— Will Shetterly
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The law is like rope ... useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
— W.P. Kinsella
Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful.
— Rob Liano
There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.
— Rufus Wainwright
But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.
— Aristotle.
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
— George Mikes
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados!
— Marcus Samuelsson
There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.
— Wylie Dufresne
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
— Joseph Addison
You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
— Idries Shah
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
— Samuel Johnson
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
— Napoleon Hill
There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
— Gabriela Mistral
Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.
— Lord Chesterfield
The minions are stupid and savage, but they have one thing that makes them semi-useful: there's a whole fucking lot of them.
— Julie Kagawa
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
— Andre Gide
I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.
— John Darnielle
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful ... but also when it comes to happiness.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
— Robert Baden-Powell
I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle
— Agatha Christie
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
— Max Lucado
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
— John Brunner
Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.
— Christopher Paolini
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
— Larry Kramer
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
— Alfie Kohn
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
— Henri Nouwen
Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.
— Daisy Goodwin
I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while.
— Yann Martel
Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.
— Deepak Chopra
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
— Douglas Hurd
Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.
— James S.A. Corey
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.
— Dean Acheson
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.
— Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
— Nicky Gumbel
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
— Edward De Bono
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.
— Jonathan Maberry
Cockiness is useful to fake on occasion, but it'll only get you killed if you believe it.
— Cassandra Rose Clarke
Radicalism,like stamp collecting,has its time and place.Perhaps,it is useful in one's youth,but you have to move on.
— Vinod Mehta
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
— Warren Bennis
If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
— John Calvin
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
— Tom Holt
Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
— Eric S. Raymond
Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see ... [it] becomes unnecessary.
— Steve Hagen
The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful ...
— Victor Hugo
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
— G. D. H. Cole
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
— Bertolt Brecht
We're so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we're seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair.
— Joanna Trollope
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
— Epictetus
The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.
— Eric Schlosser
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
— Bertrand Russell
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
— Antony Gormley
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
— Dag Hammarskjold
You might be useful but my dogs gotta eat.
— Michael Grant
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
— Pete Hamill
Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.
— Terry Pratchett
Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by
— Anthony Doerr
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard Zinn
People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful
— Kim Do-Jin
The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past.
— Elizabeth Kostova
I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!
— Marc Jacobs
I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying.
— Rainbow Rowell
But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
— A.A. Milne
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
— Sergey Brin
You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
— Tracy Reese
not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.' 'But
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
— Christian Lous Lange
Personally, I don't stretch, I don't get massages. Maybe massages would be useful, but I just don't have the time for it.
— Dean Karnazes
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
— Bernard Crick
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
— Sigmar Polke
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
— Manolo Blahnik
I'm sure computers are useful, but next to all these warm, beautiful books they seem so cold and clinical.
— J.R. Johansson
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.
— Alan Moore
But that which is useful is the better.
— Marcus Aurelius
You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose
— Eckhart Tolle
But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one's own.
— Martha Gellhorn
But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
— Annie Lennox
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
— Octavia Butler
Form is useful, but it is secondary.
— Idries Shah