(1514 quotes found)
“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships.”
Carol Gilligan
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all”
Charles Babbage
“Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.”
Charles W. Eliot
“He fishes well who uses a golden hook”
Latin Proverb
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”
Mark Twain
“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
“Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly”
Sally Kempton
“For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.”
Edgar Cayce
“If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool”
Colin Powell
“He uses language that would make your hair curl.”
William S. Gilbert
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