Aims Quotes

370 Aims quotes by 295 unique authors

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of… — Rollo May
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself. — Ken Robinson
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It… — Bill Frist
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. — Immanuel Kant
The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both… — Evelyn Underhill
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims. — Archibald Alexander Hodge
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
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
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
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
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 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
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
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley
The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable… — Unknown Author
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever… — Eugenie Scott
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,… — Friedrich Engels
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our… — Marquis de Sade
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as… — J F C Fuller
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not… — Wilfred Trotter
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this. — Michelangelo
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives… — Bertrand Russell

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