#useful

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#books #carry #fire #hand #hold

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#feel #i #i do #i think #off

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#basic #basic research #before #geared #more

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

#attention #climates #different #distinctions #explore

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

— Herbie Hancock

#cannot #force #future #guide #knowledge

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#i #i think #institution #kind #know

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#bible #commands #direct #exhortations #god

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#usefulness #life

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#innocence #useful-idiots #age