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Only useless things are indispensable. -- Francis Picabia
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. -- Peace Pilgrim
I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. -- Mo Rocca
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. -- Tom Stoppard
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. -- Karl Marx
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! -- Romola Garai
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. -- John Ruskin
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain. -- Peter Capaldi
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. -- Apollonius of Tyana
There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things. -- Daniel Radcliffe
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. -- Beatrix Potter
Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can. -- John Phillips
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. -- Paul Lynde
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. -- Pythagoras
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. -- Democritus
We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. -- Akhil Sharma
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we'd be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren't true. They're useless. But that's not the way we work. -- Paul Bloom
Things are useless without practice. -- Erykah Badu
Emperors are vain and useless things. -- Scott Westerfeld
Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. -- Russell Lynes
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. -- Alfred North Whitehead
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless -- Raghu Rai
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend. -- George Eliot
War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) -- Sebastian Junger
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. -- Roger Scruton
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? -- Carlos Castaneda
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre -- Leo Tolstoy
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. -- Scott Westerfeld
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is PoincarÃ©. -- Georges Clemenceau
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. -- Samuel Johnson
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. -- Michel Foucault
The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy! -- Robert Bresson
It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens. -- Marvin Minsky
Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation. -- Peace Pilgrim
Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk. -- Edwin Newman
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol. -- Henry Ford
I need to open this door of self in order to throw out everything that is useless and to save the meaning ofthe things I have to keep. -- Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain. -- Gautama Buddha
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. -- Plato
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. -- Paulo Coelho
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with. -- Stephen Fry
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. -- Leonardo da Vinci

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