Useless Quotes

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

All art is quite useless.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.