Object Quotes

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The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. — Bishop Creighton
The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but… — John Ruskin
The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were in… — Rabindranath Tagore
The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work… — Henry Ford
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau
They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her… — Oliver Goldsmith
We don't mind if someone wants to give us advice; we only object if they insist we take it. — Bible
Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous. — Ambrose Bierce
The true object of all human life is play. — G K Chesterton
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a… — Howard Zinn
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the grasslands of Africa,… — Terence Smith
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to — Helen Swaffer
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is… — Oliver Goldsmith
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. — Voltaire
It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right… — Aristotle
There is nothing beautiful, not even ugly, what we see depend upon our understanding of the object that is the same. It appears different according… — Senoraroy
The ability to choose how you want to live, and how you want to be treated are the two things that will give you more… — Hussein Nishah
I like how a flightless object disappears into the deep forests of miseryy; which becomes a history, for us theorists — Ramandeep Singh

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