Quotes on Use

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.