To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference it cannot become a force to guide the future.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

While negativity is politically useful it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful I think it has to be a combination of a good story it has to be funny and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry simplicity and generality and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things creative mathematicians now as in the past are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

I think it's useful as a famous person to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets and wondering when you're going to find out.

The utmost thing is the user experience to have the most useful experience.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go but without the discipline of real life they remain of the nature of theory only.

To me the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray and thus acquire experience.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge generally diffused through a community are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Do I dare set forth here the most important the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time but to squander it.

Education without values as useful as it is seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities of flying if I may say of making my hopes and dreams a reality.