#useless

Ability without honor is useless. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#honor #useless #without

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#far #follow #how #image #matter

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#burden #else #lightens #useless #who

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#anything #drunk #hold #office #person

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#people #production #results #things #too

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#else #essential #everywhere #good #good manners

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. ↗

— Thomas More

#even #everywhere #gold #hear #itself

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

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

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

#gone #higher #him #his #history