Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German… — Clark Kerr Copy Share Image
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I've always loved the club. Kaka was my role model when I was young, and my aim now is to go down… — Stephan El Shaarawy Copy Share Image
We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
