Aims Quotes

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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to… — Jacques Barzun
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. — Mortimer Adler
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in… — Carl von Clausewitz
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told… — Maya Angelou
The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state… — Sulak Sivaraksa
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. — Ludwig von Mises
Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would… — Watchman Nee
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on… — P.J. O'Rourke
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should… — Charles Ferguson
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.… — Bertrand Russell
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died.… — Malala Yousafzai
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it… — J. William Fulbright
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs… — J. William Fulbright
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. — Samuel Johnson

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