Aim Quotes

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Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle… — John Dewey
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims. — Albert Einstein
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths… — Alexander Alekhine
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's… — Mahatma Gandhi
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize… — Maria Montessori
Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution. — Karl Popper
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his… — Ludwig von Mises
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself. — Herbert Otto Gille
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of… — Karl Popper
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been… — Jacob Bronowski
The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do… — Wolfgang Pauli
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from… — Immanuel Kant
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their… — Ellen Gilchrist
It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's… — William Shakespeare
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the… — James Forrestal
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and… — Pope John Paul II
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner

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