Roger Scruton
Related It is a part of our past, ... There are a lot of useful skills our ancestors had that helped found o... BARBARA FRYE JOHANN VON GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE JAMES HENRY BREASTED ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL A belief is not true because it is useful HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL MICHAEL SPECTER ROBERT BADEN-POWELL A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison ... SAINT AMBROSE UNKNOWN There is no greater thrill in life than to find that you are not only useful, but that you can help,... GEORGE WIER SAMUEL JOHNSON JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Be useful. Do useful things. Have useful things. LORRIN L. LEE KIN HUBBARD It's been very useful for those students who are shy and may not participate in face-to-face classro... CECILIA JOHNSON DEYTH BANGER PETER F. DRUCKER There is no doubt that without conservation work, the stone-curlew may no longer have been a UK bree... ROBIN WYNDE The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.TARA MOSS I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a... CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT Shout out to everyone transcendingLALAH DELIA LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI MICHAEL GREGER serve a useful purpose [and hopes that they] will immediately disappear once the route 18 project is... GEORGE JONES The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful. JAMES D. SASS [IR] is a tool that may be useful, and I'm curious about it. But I don't do it myself. The volume of... DAVE HARTMAN Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the em... OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI JEANETTE WINTERSON VINOD KHOSLA GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen ins... MATT ASAY By this morning we had also detained a further 10 people who are under our custody because we feel t... PHILEMON OSCAR WILDE SHIRIN EBADI MICHAEL ONDAATJE W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM TAO SAYING HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I wanted to set this up as I think it would be a useful exercise for councillors from the local area... BRIAN WALSH I wanted to set this up as I think it would be a useful exercise for councillors from the local area... BRIAN WALSH Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided b... THEODORE DREISER While it's true that some sites are significantly more useful than others, the industry has improved... DENNIS GALBRAITH It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishm... WILTON M. BLOUNT SOPHOCLES ECKHART TOLLE This kind of thing may help both parties. It's one of the things that make people want to go out and... ANDREA VANNUCCI ADAM GRANT HENRY DAVID THOREAU ISRAELMORE AYIVOR CHANAKYA MARYROSE WOOD JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather ... CLIFFORD COHEN BOOKER T. WASHINGTON There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. BOOKER WASHINGTON JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (The) application far exceeds what is required by the ordinance and some of the information serves n... DENNIS ROBERTS The problem - the greatest inefficiency of the process - is that you also wind up with a substantial... ALAN GOLDMAN JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH MARK TWAIN GEORGE MASON HERMAN MELVILLE CHARLES CALEB COLTON THOR HEYERDAHL THOMAS FULLER TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT ROBERT M. PIRSIG NEIL GERSHENFELD GERALD CHERTAVIAN MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been. ADELAIDE PROCTER No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER RICHARD FEYNMAN Acting has been very useful to me. JANE ASHER JAAN TALLINN UNKNOWN The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Geo... GEORGY ARVELADZE They are not suspects, but we would like to talk to them - they do have some information that can be... JAMES CONN There is no doubt Roger was controversial. He provided housing to people who may not have been able ... ANDREW HARVEY ELIZABETH PETERS STEPHEN AMBROSE It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful. CAROLE WILKINSON ADELAIDE PROCTOR But you must know that we are a country threatened to be annihilated by our enemies. We are the only... JOSEPH LAPID W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human ... , IN THE INTRODUCTION TO FRANCES G. WICKES' "ANALYSIS DER KINDERSEELE" (THE INNER WORLD OF CHILDHOOD), 1931 HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC mak... KEVIN ARQUIT CHUCK PALAHNIUK Janus particles may be useful for directed drug delivery. JOERG LAHANN THOR HEYERDAHL Today, we do fight a different enemy, but one that is no less ruthless, no less determined, no less ... BILL FRIST CRAIG GROESCHEL Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. CHARLES BRADLAUGH AL CAPP
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. 
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. 
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities alo... 
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something... 
A belief is not true because it is useful 
If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted,... 
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may... 
There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious
purpose. 
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We ... 
Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. 
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which... 
You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked ... 
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. 
Tart cherries lower the levels of inflammation in the body, which may be particularly useful for tho... 
There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ... 
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol hav... 
It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we be... 
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that... 
I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. 
You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This... 
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. 
We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Th... 
Always desire to learn something useful. 
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose 
Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully ab... 
We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power... 
You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in ... 
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. 
I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions agai... 
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports... 
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. 
The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and wh... 
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we l... 
'I will have no man in my boat,' said Starbuck, 'who is not afraid of a whale.' By this, he seemed t... 
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A w... 
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from t... 
There is no useful rule without an exception 
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi... 
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you thought of goi... 
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which origi... 
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much usefu... 
Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did. 
God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the ar... 
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing i... 
Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out... 
May your life be long and useful like a roll of toilet paper. 
Eavesdropping, Mother?' Ramses inquired.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. 
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri... 
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri... 
And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless proce... 
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ... 
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has ... 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational inst... 
The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose d... 
The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation. 
It is a great pity we had only one bottle not enough to revive that proof of the afterlife, though e... 
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and wee... 
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular resu... 
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. 
In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a c... 
Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence. 
A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I thi... 
Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m... 
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do... 
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. 
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. 
I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so bi... 
Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ... 
Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employe... 
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. 
Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve 
The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew ex... 
You win not by chance, but by preparation. 
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. 
In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forc... 
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. 
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and y... 
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you ... 
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge... 
We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history. 
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that les... 
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dres... 
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it... 
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. ... 
Inflation is determined by money supply growth. 
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there ma... 
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ... 
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. 
To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face,
Foure waies in court to win men's grace. 
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. 
Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. 
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. 
If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our ... 
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong someth... 
The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along wit... 
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This ... 
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. I... 
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. 
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11. 
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. 
Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter. 
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon... 
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. 
In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.