Useful Arts Quotes

#1. In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

George Orwell

#2. The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

Robert Hooke

#4. For most princes apply themselves more to affairs of war than to the useful arts of peace; and in these I neither have any knowledge, nor do I much desire it; they are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms, right or wrong, than on governing well those they possess:

Thomas More

#5. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

James Madison

#6. There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.

James Joyce

#7. When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

Wallace Shawn

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

Voltaire

#9. People leave all the time.
That's kind of their thing.

Brian Alan Ellis

#10. A cold chill shot down my spine. How the hell did this freaking ass-hat have any position of authority? Power was supposed to be earned, not handed to the first idiotic dimwit willing to abuse it.

Cameo Renae

#11. It is an old remark, that all arts and sciences have a mutual dependence upon each other ... Thus men, very different in genius and pursuits, become mutually subservient to each other; and a very useful kind of commerce is established by which the old arts are improved, and new ones daily invented.

Mark Kurlansky

#12. The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial influence which they exert upon the arts, are counted among the most useful and extraordinary inventions.

Louis Daguerre

#13. I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#14. When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

Jim Cantalupo

#15. The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

Philip Schultz

#16. You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

Imogen Cunningham

#17. We're all liars sometimes.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#18. Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Bruce Lee

#19. The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Ramsey Clark

#21. True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful.

Chris Matakas

#22. 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

#23. Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Samuel Johnson

#24. Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.

Lord Chesterfield

#25. But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Jonathan Kozol

#26. Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Ovid

#27. People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

George Carey

#28. The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

Townsend Harris

#29. No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.

Stephenie Meyer

#30. Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#31. Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

Simone Elkeles

#32. The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

Miyamoto Musashi