Use - Quotes
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
You have to pick your battles wisely, because it just takes so much energy to be angry. Energy that you can put to better use.
Stories are, in one way or another, mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn`t work. Like mirrors, stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in the darkness.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason [...] is like giving medicine to the dead.
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
You can`t take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can`t really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don`t make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren`t much fun anyway.
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed [...]. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
Time is free, but it`s priceless. You can`t own it, but you can use it. You can`t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you`ve lost it you can never get it back.