Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
A useless life is an early death.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Generally, successful fads have some kind of play value, like the Frisbee, Slinky, Silly Putty, my Wallwalker. They're generally inexpensive items, impulse items. They tend to be rather useless items, too. They provide a few minutes of amusement.
While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.