#useless

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#necessary #only #self-confidence #strength #useless

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#directly #disinterested #force #knowledge #made

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#between #cannot #difference #falsehood #gold

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

#appearance #camera #carry #desperately #ear

Music is essentially useless, as is life. ↗

— George Santayana

#life #music #useless

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#course #know #nothing #than #things

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. ↗

— Jack Vance

#away #countless #done #find #fit

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. ↗

— Moliere

#every #every heart #everyone #frank #heart

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#does #happiness #idleness #life #only

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#cook #down #get #i #life