Useless Quotes - Page 9

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However, if you catch on early, before others believe, you might have valuable “surprise-a-mentals”.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

Intention without action is useless.

The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.