Usefulness Quotes

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Tools have their own integrity.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

The useful and the beautiful are never separated.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

I have a thing for things that last.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

Don’t think innovation, think usefulness.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.