Profitless Quotes

#1. Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#2. Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

William L. Jenkins

#3. Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.

Rachel Carson

#4. I think sometimes our minds get so full of something that we just have to empty them out.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum sustained.

Ludovic Kennedy

#6. She'd never thought of herself quite that way. She was more an idiosyncratic ignorer of established boundaries than a glutton for the new and the uncharted. But perhaps they were one and the same, each one implying the other.

Sherry Thomas

#7. I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

David Ogilvy

#8. To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Android has been managed essentially to make it a profitless prosperity. Right now, if Google is not careful, Android will be Samsung or Samsung will be Android.

Roger McNamee

#10. To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that's above and beyond what's expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.

Tony Hsieh

#11. Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Theophrastus

#12. A German writer observes: The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#13. The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

Jed Rubenfeld

#14. with each measured step,
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are.

Sheniz Janmohamed

#15. However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Frederick William Robertson

#16. Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.

Debbie Ford

#17. They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

Jock Sturges

#18. You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

Antoine Fuqua

#19. But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Sophocles

#20. I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

Robert Browning

#21. Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

Mitt Romney

#22. Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

Julia Ward Howe

#23. The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

Alison Gopnik

#25. It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Nick Harkaway

#26. How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

Janny Wurts

#27. Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.

Tim Cahill

#28. The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

B.C. Forbes