Aim Quotes

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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience… — Emma Goldman
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends. — Wallace D. Wattles
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was… — Aristotle
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things. — Henri Poincare
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum… — Karl Pearson
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with… — H. L. Mencken
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;… — John Owen
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce… — James Clerk Maxwell
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth… — Guglielmo Marconi
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought… — Gilbert Highet
The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the… — Sun Tzu
The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his… — Pope Benedict XVI
Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that… — John Zachary Young

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