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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. — Chanakya

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. — Alexandre Dumas

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham

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

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. — Douglas Coupland

Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful. — Rob Liano

But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men. — Aristotle.

I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho' it might be true, was not very useful. — Benjamin Franklin

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. — Scott Adams

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. — Claire Danes

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful. — Gabriela Mistral

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later. — R. K. Milholland

A pond full of information can sometimes be less useful than a cup full of insight — Gyan Nagpal

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big — Lisa Genova

Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain. — Nitesh Nishad

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information. — Chris Hardwick

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company. — Jack Kilby

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for. — James Hillman

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

Wealth Is Like Dung, Useful Only When Spread" - Chinese Proverb JIGGS — B.K. Froman

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful. — Ingmar Bergman

To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. — Dalai Lama

I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun! — Robert Kirkman

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

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms. — Voltaire

I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences. — Brene Brown

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. — Larry Wall

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. — Piet Zwart

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. — Paul Laseau

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact. — Daniel Kahneman

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. — Alfonso X Of Castile

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

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy. — Hans Rosling

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. — Leon Battista Alberti

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

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting. — Sister Parish

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

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. — Richard Dawkins

Live your life significantly. Contribute to a meaningful and useful positive changes and growth towards humanity. — Angelica Hopes

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control. — Emmuska Orczy

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive. — C.J. Redwine

I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying. — Rainbow Rowell

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. — John Burnham Schwartz

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. — Paul Volcker

All models are wrong; some models are useful. — W. Edwards Deming

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all — Socrates

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful. — Andrea Arnold

Always desire to learn something useful. — Sophocles

no matter how useful the electricity may be, it needs connections to function — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Then there was the puzzle of why the sun came out during the day, instead of at night when the light would come in useful. — Terry Pratchett

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. — Ambrose Bierce

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man — George Washington

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last. — Josephus Daniels

The idea of God is very useful,' Napoleon said, 'to maintain good order, to keep men in the path of virtue and to keep them from crime. — Andrew Roberts

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe. — Comte De Lautreamont

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. — Swami Satchidananda

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. — Howard Zinn

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. — John Barnes

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. — Peter Greenaway

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. — Tom Robbins

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. — Annie Lennox

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. — Harold Macmillan

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. — Robin Hobb

I have no useful theories about love and marriage. — Michael Cunningham

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson

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

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. — Max McKeown

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff. — Henry A. Kissinger

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres. — Michael Bloomberg

The man who is successful is the man who is useful. — William Bourke Cockran

Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel. — Sarah Pinborough

May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. — Mary Oliver

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very
useful in the real world, that's for sure. — Haruki Murakami

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. — Oscar Wilde

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. — Lord Chesterfield

When students practice good classroom listening skills, these also become useful life skills. — Michael S. Lawson

A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ... — Henri Bergson

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ... — Sam Maloof

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews. — Heidi Julavits

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — Kurt Vonnegut

You want to do things you're passionate about but also are useful to other people. — Elon Musk

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off. — Matthew Macfadyen

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham

Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate. — Lisa Unger

You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women. — Tracy Reese

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world. — Henry David Thoreau

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. — Stephen King

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. — Melissa Bank

It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world. — Derek Sivers

Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe. — John Christopher

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way. — Neal Barnard

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. — Fareed Zakaria

You look too pretty to be useful."
"Truer words were never spoken. — Richelle Mead

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. — Eliza Haywood