Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invin...
What was to be the value of the long looked forward to, Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders, Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit? The serenity o...
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no...
Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create m...
...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.
It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.
Useless wisdom is doulbe foolishness.
Useless wisdom is double foolishness.
In the face of love and death, courage is useless.
Faith and dishonesty are other words for uselessness.
When fate strikes physicians are useless.
It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man.
If it were not for the hands, the clock would be useless.
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.
Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at p...
Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009 Liberals are a useless lot.
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.
After three years useless things are useful too.
I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything becaus...
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.
