To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
– Zhuang Zhou
The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s useful because it’s beautiful.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Take what’s useful, discard what is not.
– Bruce Lee
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
– Leonardo da Vinci
To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.
– Marc Jacobs
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But that which is useful is the better.
– Marcus Aurelius
Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
– Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.
– Ovid
Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.
– Ovid
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.
– James W. Loewen
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.
– Madeleine de Souvre
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
– Anna Quindlen
‘Useful,’ and ‘necessity’ was always ‘the tyrant’s plea’.
– C. S. Lewis
When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
– Vilfredo Pareto
Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.
– Halldor Laxness
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
– Karl Marx
Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
– Mahatma Gandhi
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
– Benjamin Hoff
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
– Seneca The Younger
To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
– Thomas Jefferson
Useful men, who do useful things, don’t mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.
– Paulo Coelho
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
– Antisthenes
When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.
– Idries Shah
Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried.
– Henry David Thoreau
