Useless Quotes

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Good, Through, Understand

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine

Love, Drunk, Person

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Computers, Give, Answers

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya

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

Results, Useful, Production

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

Hope, Live, Desire

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Nelson Mandela

Peace, Government, Against

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Pleasure, Gained

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Death, Early

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Stewart Alsop

Time, Sleep, Die

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.
Jose Rizal

Life, Great, Wasted

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Long, Friend

No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Long, Friend, Others

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

Important, Able, Moon

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Geronimo

God, Children, Down

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens

Else, Anyone, Burden

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton

Courage, Face, Educated

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

Knowledge, Integrity, Dangerous

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Battle, Found, Plans

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac

Religion, History, Art

Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson

Truth, Knowledge, Wise

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk

Education, Game, Left

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