Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.
It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.
Remorse for what is done is useless.
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.
I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr. , Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens. ]
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
And here I always thought morality was useless
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.
Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.
There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.