#useless

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#because #calls #counsel #effect #force

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#become #boyfriend #easy #good #house

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#becomes #delivery #did #feel #guy

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#decide #governed #opinion #ought #say

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#beneficial #change #confuse #distortion #innovation

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #much #pleasure #useless #useless knowledge

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#course #know #nothing #than #things

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

— Tom Stoppard

#course #know #nothing #than #things

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#available #become #data #full-time #full-time job

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. ↗

— John Cage

#play #sleep #those #useless #who