Object Quotes

2140 quotes by 1419 authors

The object of art is to give life shape. — Jean Anouilh
Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods. — James Joyce
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap — George Bernard Shaw
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill
There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself. — Rumi
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any… — Rumi
I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a… — Herbert Hoover
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan… — William Maxwell
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object… — Bill Joy
The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been… — Thomas Paine
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. — Baden Powell de Aquino
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. — Baden Powell de Aquino
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech)… — Eugenio Montale
The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love.… — Michael Jackson
Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt. — Anne Hathaway
The word â€˜studioâ€™ is derives from â€˜studyâ€™. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. Itâ€™s to know them after… — Bruce Mau
This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of… — Richard Baxter
With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me.… — Swami Vivekananda
A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce… — Thomas Aquinas

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