Quotes about Useless

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.

Most criticism shared in the internet age is useless, or worse, harmful. It's useless because it often personalizes the criticism to be about the creator, not the work. And it's useless because most critics are unskilled and ungenerous.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... 'We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.' So they begin to ask: 'What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.