Useful And Harmful Quotes

#1. All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. When you learn to embrace your flaws is how you learn to love yourself, perfectly.

Nyki Edwinna

#3. Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

Edward Young

#4. Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Giacomo Leopardi

#5. It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

Cesare Beccaria

#6. Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Otto Von Bismarck

#7. Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that.

Evgeny Morozov

#8. In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

Bertrand Russell

#10. Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.

Naeem Khan

#11. By early 2004 Tickle had become the second-largest social network after Friendster, with two million members actively connected to others and exchanging messages.

David Kirkpatrick

#12. The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies ... they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

Martin Heidegger

#13. Just change your attitude and perception to change your life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Man Ray

#16. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann

#17. What is a good man?
Simply one whose life is useful to the world.
And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others.
There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness.
These are the worst of all.

Zhang Zhao

#18. Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.

Ted Lowe

#19. Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

Bertrand Russell

#20. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.

Isaac Asimov