#useful

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#ask #birth #child #could #curiosity

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#analyze #autobiographies #find #journey #life

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#begins #certain #certain point #competition #cooperation

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#depends #like #rifle #upon #usefulness

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#affiliates #angry #attack #deciding #dissent

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#common people #false #people #regarded #religion

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#brave #courage #esteemed #hence #highly

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#basic #basic research #before #geared #more

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#bible #commands #direct #exhortations #god

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#innocence #useful-idiots #age