Useful Quotes

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.”
― Gore Vidal, At Home: Essays 1982-1988

“No matter how great a technical expert you are, you will never be able to create something useful until you know what people want.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”
― Pierre-Simon Laplace

“I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful”
― Stephen King

“In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.”
― Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web

“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all."
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . .”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Writings

“You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the British chemists; and upon the whole, I think the new nomenclature will be rejected, after doing more harm than good. There are some good publications in it, which must be translated into the ordinary chemical language before they will be useful.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Writings

“Something that doesn't actually exist can still be useful.”
― Ian Stewart, Infinity: A Very Short Introduction

“Sadness was a futile, weak emotion. At least anger was useful- a sharp edge to cut another's heart, or a hard shell to protect your own.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“— Les anciens dieux sont puissants, mais ils ne sont ni bienveillants ni indulgents. Ils sont capricieux, aussi instables que le reflet de la lune à la surface de l'eau ou les ombres au sol par temps d'orage. Si tu persistes à vouloir les invoquer, sois prudente : prends garde à ce que tu leur demandes et sois prête à en payer le prix.
Penchée vers la jeune fille qu'elle plonge dans l'ombre, elle ajoute :
— Et, surtout, même si la situation est dramatique ou désespérée, ne prie jamais, au grand jamais, les dieux qui répondent à la nuit tombée.”
― V.E. Schwab

“Elle peut vivre sans manger (elle ne se flétrira pas) et sans chaleur (le froid ne la tuera pas).
Mais une vie sans art, sans émerveillement, sans beauté... elle en deviendrait folle. D'ailleurs, elle l'est devenue.)”
― V.E. Schwab

“If there are three or five stones in a river that you can step on and cross, you should call them bridges, not stones! Peeled an apple with a sharp stone? Its name is no longer a sharp stone but a knife! As long as something works for you and solves your problem, you should give it the highest honour!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee

“The role of useless ideas is to help us see the useful ones.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“If someone teaches only what his superior Man predetermines and orders him to teach, without himself being absolutely convinced of the Meaningfulness and Usefulness of the Content, then he is far more dulled than any Student.”
― Sino Melo

“A chain of whispers finds it way to the presiding judge who listens stoically.”
― Adrian Bliss, The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments

“A bittersweet montage of memories flicker past her eyes.”
― Adrian Bliss

“«Коли ти їх уперше побачила?» - запитав Дарлінітон у день їхнього знайомства, у день, коли нацькував на неї шакалів. Дарлінгтон володів сімома мовами. Умів фехтувати. Знався на бразильському джіу-джицу, міг замінити проводку в електричному щитку, цитував поезію та пʼєси авторів, про яких Алекс навіть ніколи не чула. Але він завжди ставив неправильні запитання.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Тоді Деніелові не вдалося точно визначити почування, але за кілька місяців він прямував по шосе I-95, аж раптом фура виїхала на його смугу, розминувшись із ним на кілька міліметрів. Тіло накрило хвилею адреналіну, а рот наповнився гірким смаком потовченого аспірину — і він пригадав смак кулі Гайрама.
Усе було точнісінько так, як щоразу доти і як лишатиметься завжди, аж поки котрась доза нарешті не спробує вбити його інтоксикацією печінки. Не можна безкінечно наближатися до смерті й торкатися лише кінчиками пальців. Урешті-решт вона схопить тебе за щиколотку та спробує затягнути на дно.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“To see with the eye of an entrepreneur is to see the usefulness in everything.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You