What's the Matter with the Mill?
All art is quite useless.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
A useless life is an early death.
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
Ability without honor is useless.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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