Quotes on Uselessness

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

A useless life is an early death.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.