Explore 'Utility'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

Every institution goes through three stages – utility, privilege, and abuse.

François-René de Chateaubriand

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

Frederick Lenz

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it’s not to be exposed.

Massimo Vignelli

Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.

Leonard J. V. Compagno

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

Leonardo da Vinci

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Michel de Montaigne

I have learned that you’re only relevant to someone if you’re beneficial to them somehow/some way

Miguel

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Walter Jon Williams

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

Laozi

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

James A. Garfield

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

Henri Poincare

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

George Pope Morris

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

George Washington

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

James McHenry

We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

A “store of value” without utility is just a Ponzi.

Roger Ver

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

David Ricardo

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

A. E. Housman

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Al-Shafi‘i

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

Swami Satchidananda

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Kevin Kelly

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