Limited Usefulness Quotes

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.