175 Useless Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. Ramakrishna

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said. Steve Vai

Death Me Fear Remember Somebody Once Insane Musician Carried Scared About Fact Tour Weight He Because Around Rock Said Becoming Very Goes Any Going Famous In Fact Successful Aspirations Useless Thing

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Nothing General Maxim Useless

I have always thought that pandas, in evolutionary terms, are the most sophisticated animals in the world. They cannot look after themselves; they are useless at reproducing. But to compensate, they have managed to persuade the most advanced creatures on the planet - human beings - to care for their every need. Adam Curtis

World Care Thought Animals Every Evolutionary Advanced Sophisticated Look Most Terms Always Human Human Beings After Reproducing Cannot Themselves Planet Persuade Useless Beings Creatures Compensate Need

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Albert Camus

Hope Man Will Live His Dictate Wants Useless Actions Desire

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. Albert J. Nock

Life Mathematics Knowledge History You Remember Will Lost Gone Cargo Only Obliged Higher He Him His Much Languages Useful Useful Knowledge Useless Useless Knowledge Original Whole

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. Albert J. Nock

Knowledge Culture Considered Define Possession Has-Been Well Been Truly May Forgotten Body Useless Useless Knowledge Large Now

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. Albert J. Nock

Knowledge Business Society Unless Enterprise See Only Indispensable Noble Fails Well Exist Itself Goes Useless Useless Knowledge Apparently University Conservation

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful. Alice Englert

Way Only Area Could Bothered Quite Human Being Where The Only Thing Stories Anything Little Being Human Useful Useless Even Thing

I think Yelp is neither good nor bad for the food industry. I find it useless. Andrew Zimmern

Good Food Think Bad Neither Find Food Industry Industry Nor Useless

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless. Ang Lee

Weak Pretty Felt Years Six Useless

Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life. Ann Leckie

Life Time You Writing Other Else Strike Books Some Someone Individual Very Might Your Useless Helpful Found Appreciated

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?' Anna Kendrick

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything. Anthony Horowitz

School Everything Favourite Subject Really Useless

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

Wisdom Law Unless City Contains Also Equivalent Subject Stones Theaters Them Useless Such Things Paintings Things

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. Arne Glimcher

Change Sometimes AI Painting Society Carefully Furniture Ancient Rapid Pot Absurd Conceptual Arrangements Artist Chinese Produced Useless Coca-Cola Illustrate

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

God You People Comedy Think Damn Damn Thing Other Earth Solve About Above Seems Involved Because Ceases Just Unhappiness Toil Useless Agony Thing Funniest

The government - they're completely useless. Chamath Palihapitiya

Government Useless

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. Charles Baudelaire

Nature Me Ugly Nothing Consider Monsters Positively Trivial Because Exists Represent Fancy Prefer Useless Satisfies Tedious

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless. Charles D. Broad

Natural Made Philosophy Would Would-Be Clear Because Sciences Method Different Experiments Natural Sciences Should Useless Now Why Utterly

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. Christian Louboutin

Nature Natural Hate Example Invention Wild Complete Extravagance High High Heels See Touch Adore Idea Like Sophisticated For Example Human Prefer Heels Far Useful Useless Gardens

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