Usefulness Quotes

You see... you don't want to let them polarize family issues and benefits to split the workers. I think there's more usefulness in a benefits package that serves both. - Betty Friedan

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity) - Michael Faraday

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public? - Sara Jeannette Duncan

When you consider the data in totality, there just does not seem to be much difference between these two markers with respect to their diagnostic usefulness in patients with kidney disease. While kidney disease modestly reduces the diagnostic accuracy of both markers, when used in the appropriate manner, both tests appear to return identical information. - Dr. James Januzzi Jr

When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness. - Olympia Brown

What started to erode some of the popularity was the amount of time it took to prepare and the usefulness: What are we accomplishing educationally for the amount of time that's going into that program? - Kyle Clark

What is useful cannot be base. - Latin Proverb

We kept them in good repair, but they are still old buildings. When we purchased the property, I thought they would outlive their usefulness in 10 years. But 25 to 30 years later, they?re still there. - Jim Johnson

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. - Thomas Merton