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There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain. — Gautama Buddha

Only useless things are indispensable. — Francis Picabia

Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid. — Apol Lejano-Massebieau

Some things are so useless one can't live without them. — Marty Rubin

I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain. — Peter Capaldi

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. — Russell Lynes

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. — Samuel Johnson

Remember who you are. Realize what you are. Do both those things, or you'll either be completely useless-or too dangerous to help anyone. — Sarah Fine

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless. — John Ruskin

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! — Romola Garai

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you. — J.R. Rim

It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing. — Seneca.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. — Mo Rocca

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. — Peace Pilgrim

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend. — George Eliot

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful. — Pippa DaCosta

I'm me, and what the hell can I do about it!
...
I, the solemn investigator of useless things... — Fernando Pessoa

Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to express it, it only makes things worse. — Paul Auster

Men are essentially useless for the difficult things in life. For births and deaths, one clearheaded woman is more useful than a half-dozen men. — Laura Bickle

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. — Alfred North Whitehead

there were few things in the world more useless than an empty gun. — Evan Currie

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders! ... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy! — Robert Bresson

Most of the time our stress is useless. It's because we don't see the outcome of things. God does. — Amanda Penland

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. — Scott Westerfeld

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. — Michel Foucault

Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless. — Neal Stephenson

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol. — Henry Ford

Do you ask what is the foundation of a sound mind? It is, not to find joy in useless things. — Seneca.

Maybe I am a coward. In facts, it is much better than open my big mouth and say useless things. — Shim Steward

Pretty things can be useless, and ugly things can be useful. Beauty and quality are not always related. — Abby Covert

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

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens. — Marvin Minsky

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless — Raghu Rai

but sometimes all the right things are as useless as nothing at all. Life, — Ann Patchett

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) — Sebastian Junger

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre — Leo Tolstoy

We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless. — Randolph Bourne

Emperors are vain and useless things. — Scott Westerfeld

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times
or you will be useless. — Mitch Albom

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. — Karl Marx

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time. — Maira Kalman

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it. — Amy Hempel

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones. — Orson Scott Card

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? — Carlos Castaneda

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation. — Peace Pilgrim