Function Quotes

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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by… — Alice Duer Miller
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is… — Jane Addams
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror… — Tacitus
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as… — Edward Hallett Carr
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present. — Adam Garfinkle
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive. — John W. Gardner
The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences. — Stuart Wilde
It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the… — Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the… — Rajneesh
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In… — Gay Hendricks
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct. — Herbert Spencer
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American… — Michael Cunningham
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths… — Alice Miller
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system… — Noam Chomsky
...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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