Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
Theodore Roosevelt
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world
Ann Radcliffe
Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit
Marie Curie
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor
Charles Brockden Brown
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there
Josh Billings
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
William Graham Sumner
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work
Jose Saramago
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force
Koichi Tanaka
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction
John George Nicolay
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness
Joseph Lancaster
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important
David F. Houston
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country
David F. Houston
The great aim of human life
Horace Mann