Top 358 Utility Quotes & Sayings

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.

Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to society. The income reflects the high total utility of a livelihood to a person.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in play will be balanced against the utility to be derived from other obtainable goods.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.

Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

You have to think of the blockchain as a new utility. It is a new utility network for moving value, moving assets.

As a Virginian, I am proud of Dominion and SunEnergy1 for bringing utility scale solar to the state.

What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

I guess I'm a utility player where I can do it all.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.

We can improve the utility of email by maneouvring its use in a constructive manner.

When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

If we just isolate distributed solar all by itself, it does not work without the utility around it. And so the utility needs to be paid for the services it provides.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

I did the utility thing at first out of necessity to find a place on the team.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain'

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

I'm technically the utility guy on the field. Whether you need a plumber or an electrician, man, I'm here for you.

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.

The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.