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Letter "U" » useless
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Love,
Men,
Relationships
| Keywords:
indispensable, useless
«The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.»
«The most useless are those who never change through the years.»
«There is nothing useless to men of sense»
«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.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
appreciates, excellent, good and, intelligence, kinds, The Second, The Third, thing in itself, third, understands, useless
«There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.»
«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.»
«There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
gained, pleasure, useless
«Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.»
«Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
calamity, chief, combining, effect, higher power, lacking, rests, spells, undirected, usefulness, useless, utterly
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