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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. -- Cleveland Abbe
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. -- Peace Pilgrim
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. -- Alfred Korzybski
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important. -- David F. Houston
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. -- Thomas Merton
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. -- Charles William Eliot
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness. -- Bruce Lee
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. -- Ovid
Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation. -- Hosea Ballou
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. -- Walter Lippmann
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. -- Baltasar Gracian
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. -- Josh Billings
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. -- Richard M. Nixon
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. -- William O. Douglas
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within. -- Jonathan Swift
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. -- E. T. Bell
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain. -- Eugenie Clark
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie. -- George Herbert
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude. -- Benjamin Franklin
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at. -- Ellen Terry
Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there. -- Laozi
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. -- John Cheever
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. -- Jose Saramago
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. -- Peter Agre
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. -- Woodrow Wilson
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness. -- Joseph Lancaster
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. -- Gene Tunney
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. -- Kevin Kelly
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. -- Richard Ernst
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. -- Charles Simmons
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. -- William Graham Sumner
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. -- E. T. Bell
To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made. -- George Muller
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. -- Guy Finley
I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work. -- James E. Faust
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe. -- Sam Harris
Movement will fail sooner than usefulness. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt. -- Dimitris Mitropoulos
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. -- Lord Mountbatten
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me. -- David Harsanyi
Brokenness is Godâ??s requirement for maximum usefulness. -- Charles Stanley
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. -- Oswald Chambers
The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness. -- Laozi
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness. -- Laozi
Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance. -- Stephen Fry
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent. -- Kevin Kelly
Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology. -- Rod Paige
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness. -- Marlin Fitzwater
The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. -- Lane Kirkland
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I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness. -- Robert E. Murray
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. -- Immanuel Kant
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. -- Evan Esar
Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold. -- Patricia A. McKillip
The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group. -- Lane Kirkland
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. -- Samuel Johnson
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. -- Lane Kirkland
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness. -- Henri Nouwen
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness? -- Suzanne Collins
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure. -- Peter Drucker
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. -- John George Nicolay
In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. -- Suzanne Collins
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it. -- Dieter Rams
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. -- David F. Houston
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them. -- Paul Feyerabend
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. -- Theophile Gautier
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind. -- Alex Campbell
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution. -- J. C. Ryle
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. -- Ann Radcliffe
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. -- Joseph Joubert
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. -- Richard Dawkins
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. -- Charles Spurgeon
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others. -- Tryon Edwards
God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. -- Billy Graham
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. -- Martin Gardner
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. -- Cynthia Ozick
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted. -- Laozi
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others. -- Oswald Chambers
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. -- Eugene Ionesco
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public? -- Sara Jeannette Duncan
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors. -- Charles de Gaulle
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability. -- Johannes Rau
Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream. -- D.T. Suzuki
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. -- Eugene Wigner
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful. -- Gerry McGovern
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger. -- Charles Spurgeon
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... -- Alfred Korzybski
The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason. -- Thiruman Archunan
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way. -- Jim Benton
Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take. -- Paulo Coelho
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family. -- Brigham Young
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included. -- Albert Einstein
Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement. -- Grover Cleveland
The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet. -- Dennis Weaver
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him. -- Oswald Chambers
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions. -- John Chadwick
In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them -- Eric Hoffer
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances. -- F. F. Bosworth

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