Useful Quotes

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

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

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

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.

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.