Quotes with useless

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  • Carlo Ponti There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
    Carlo Ponti
    Italian film producer (1912 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Peter F. Drucker There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert J. Nock Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Miller When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Barry Hannah When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Carl Sandburg Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Lord George Byron Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Hugh Blair Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Lou Gerstner You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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  • Oscar Wilde All art is quite useless.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Pablo Picasso Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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