Top 100 Most Useful Quotes
#1. Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason
#2. It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing.
Nelson Mandela
#3. One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase "beware the fallacy of evil men.
Bill Kovach
#4. Most of what is now "bitter" for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature
Sunday Adelaja
#5. That night taught me one of life's most useful lessons, one of the only pieces of advice I have to offer to younger generations: YOU'RE ALLOWED TO WALK OUT!
Nick Hornby
#6. The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
Samuel Johnson
#7. The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#8. The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
Mary-Louise Parker
#9. The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.
Tom Robbins
#10. There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.
Saul Bass
#11. Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. To love, to be loved, and to be useful: these are the most important elements in a happy, meaningful life, and they can be achieved anywhere.
Syrie James
#13. Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.
Edith Cavell
#14. The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King
#15. But is shame really the most useful tool to be employed in the reformation of mankind? Do people grow better through being belittled? Does fear educate?
Alain De Botton
#16. Curiosity's primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We're hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.
Julie Czerneda
#17. Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.
Richard Whately
#18. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark
#19. The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
Thomas De Quincey
#20. Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
Edward De Bono
#21. Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.
Marissa Mayer
#22. At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.
William Kent Krueger
#23. Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Ambrose Bierce
#24. The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.
Larry Ellison
#25. I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.
Humphry Davy
#26. Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.
Richard Serra
#27. The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#29. Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control.
Emmuska Orczy
#30. The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
Stendhal
#31. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
#32. The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
Evelyn Underhill
#33. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle.
#34. We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life.
Prescott Bush
#35. re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most useful resources ever discovered-- to provide a substitute for dirt --the cheapest and most widely available agricultural input imaginable.
David R. Montgomery
#36. A person of high, rare mental gifts who is forced into a job which is merely useful is like a valuable vase decorated with the most beautiful painting and then used as a kitchen pot.
Irvin D. Yalom
#37. Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#38. I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
Anne Frank
#39. Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#40. Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
Harold Macmillan
#41. The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.
Matt Lucas
#42. The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.
Alexander Hamilton
#43. The only scholarship that has any merit, I suppose, is what is useful to other people as well as oneself. The most meritorious of all is what is useful to other scholars, sometimes for generations.
Peter Levi
#44. That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
John Green
#45. 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
#46. The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.
William James
#47. I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
Alan Alda
#48. A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
Anna Louise Strong
#49. We often despise what is most useful to us.
Aesop
#50. We'd like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.
Seth Godin
#51. The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#53. In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.
Edward Gibbon
#54. Those moments you are most joyful,
those moments are most blissful,
and those moments of life are most useful.
Debasish Mridha
#55. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#56. For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
#57. IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.
Stefan Zweig
#59. Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don't implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.
Joseph Paxton
#61. Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.'
Peter York
#62. The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
Bill McKibben
#63. Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Michael Gove
#64. Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#65. For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.
Alan Lightman
#66. The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson
#67. I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.
Michael Ian Black
#68. Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.
Lord Chesterfield
#69. Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.
Timothy Geithner
#70. By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. Aye,
Herman Melville
#71. Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.
Edward Abbey
#72. To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
Man Ray
#73. We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
Sam Harris
#74. LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.
Ambrose Bierce
#75. Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
Betty Friedan
#76. Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.
Amy Bloom
#77. To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
#78. Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
Owen Feltham
#79. Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
Eric Allin Cornell
#80. Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine.
Michael Ian Black
#81. Professor Longbottom only assigned us to write about spynuswort because it's one of the three most useful plants in the magical world. If we were to write about every one of its uses, we'd be turning in encyclopedias, you silly boy.
G. Norman Lippert
#82. Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,
teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.
Samuel Smiles
#83. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
#84. 'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.
Neil Postman
#85. Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
Robert Musil
#86. The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.
El-P
#87. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
Douglas Adams
#88. All learning is useful, all the sciences are curious, all the arts are beautiful; but the most useful, most curious and most beautiful is perfect knowledge and perfect government of oneself.
Frances Wright
#89. Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#91. When Achilles is most useful and loyal to you, that is when he has most certainly betrayed you?
Orson Scott Card
#92. A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Shedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite.
Roy Davis
#93. From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
#94. The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.
Frank Zappa
#95. Hemp happens to be one of the most useful, strongest, toughest, longest-lasting materials on your planet.
Neale Donald Walsch
#96. The ability to punch isn't that useful in a girl fight. Words are our finest weapons ... and well, most men can't keep up.
Katie Graykowski
#97. If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
#98. Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
#99. Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Sallust
#100. Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
Louisa May Alcott
