Useless Quotes

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

All art critics are useless or harmful.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

The elderly are useless eaters.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water.

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

All art is quite useless.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Remorse for what is done is useless.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees. Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]