#useless

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#difference #evil #good #good and evil #religion

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#few #few things #i #know #lot

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#course #know #nothing #than #things

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#believe #cooperate #family #however #i

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #just #just because #mean #planned

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains. ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#been #boat #draw #everyday #hurts