Top 271 Usefulness Quotes & Sayings

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

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.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

Most of the martial arts techniques go in waves of popularity and usefulness, but they all work.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.