Quotes about Useful

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.

Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.

All of which is here recorded to the honour of that good Christian pair, representatives of hundreds of other good Christian pairs as conscientious and as useful, who merge the smallness of their work in its greatness, and feel in no danger of losing dignity when they adapt themselves to incomprehensible humbugs.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to all conditions) and that the whole notion of the truth is an abstraction from the fact of truths in the plural, a mere useful summarizing phrase like the Latin language or the Law.

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.