Useful Quotes

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.”
― Gore Vidal, At Home: Essays 1982-1988

“No matter how great a technical expert you are, you will never be able to create something useful until you know what people want.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”
― Pierre-Simon Laplace

“I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful”
― Stephen King

“In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.”
― Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web

“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all."
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . .”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Go away unless you have something useful to say.'

'Move faster. You'll be less likely to die. How's that for useful?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters

“You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the British chemists; and upon the whole, I think the new nomenclature will be rejected, after doing more harm than good. There are some good publications in it, which must be translated into the ordinary chemical language before they will be useful.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters

“Something that doesn't actually exist can still be useful.”
― Ian Stewart, Infinity: A Very Short Introduction

“Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“People were always most interested in things that didn't have anything useful to tell them. I had no idea why.”
― Santosh Kalwar, The Society In Opposition To Everything

“Being bilingual in English and Spanish language was useful during the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“There is no fulfillment like be useful.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is nothing like being useful.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The fortune of life is to be useful to oneself as well as his or her fellow-creatures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“She wasn't wicked. She simply wasn't useful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick

“William Morris, " Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“If there are three or five stones in a river that you can step on and cross, you should call them bridges, not stones! Peeled an apple with a sharp stone? Its name is no longer a sharp stone but a knife! As long as something works for you and solves your problem, you should give it the highest honour!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sadness was a futile, weak emotion. At least anger was useful- a sharp edge to cut another's heart, or a hard shell to protect your own.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee