Worthless Quotes - Page 15

• RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Philosophy, Lying

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Study

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• My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

  James McBride

  Years, America, Parent

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Dream, Expression, Evil

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• A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

  Euripides

  Wise, Charm, Fellows

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• A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

  Theodore W. Parker

  Pleasure, Poor, Worthless Life

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• From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.

  Caryl Phillips

  Reading, Home, Writing

  Caryl Phillips (2010). “A New World Order”, p.192, Random House

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• Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

  Nicky Oppenheimer

  Psychological Needs, Diamond, Needs

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• Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jewels, Pebbles, Priceless

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• Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  People, Mind, Enemy

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.127, Tharpa Publications US

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• Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, Design, Execution

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• Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

  John McLaughlin

  Musician, Spirituality, Music Is

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• As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

  William Goldman

  Movie, Stars, Actors

  William Goldman (2012). “Adventures in the Screen Trade”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.

  Martha Beck

  Baby, Liars, Believe

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• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

  William Ellery Channing

  Art, Light, Sky

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4

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• The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as the latter would end in a total anarchy of the state, the former would end in a worthless religious nihilism.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Struggle, Nihilism

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Sweet, Effort, Suffering

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• One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

  Oswald Spengler

  Honor, Enemy, Doe

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson 1880 (1928). “The decline of the West”

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• Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, Men, Use

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• Words are worthless. How can you describe the other worlds?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, World

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• When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?

  Steve Sabol

  Father, Rights, Years

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• Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.

  William O'Neil

  Thinking, Personal Opinions, Tv Shows

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• The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Military, Character, Men

  Hans von Seeckt (1930). “Thoughts of a Soldier”

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• It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

  Karl Marx

  Might, Paper, Paradoxical

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734, 1857-1858.

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• The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Reading, Class

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