Our Purposes Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

• No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make… — Alfred Adler
• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant… — Stephen Jay Gould
• There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our… — Norbert Wiener
• But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only… — Ann Patchett
• Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it… — John Searle
• As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes. — Mariella Frostrup
• No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him… — Dallas Willard
• I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in… — Kevin Hearne
• Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured,… — Thomas Troward
• The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little… — John Steinbeck
• English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings,… — Willard Gaylin
• I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
• Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick… — Margaret Atwood
• We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes. — Gary L. Francione
• For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely,"… — Cassandra Clare
• For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson
• So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompletenessunited, such strength of self-association that no… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Who Wrote These Our Purposes Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Our Purposes Quotes as follows:

• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Norbert Wiener
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Ann Patchett
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by John Searle
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Mariella Frostrup
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Dallas Willard
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Kevin Hearne
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Thomas Troward
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by John Steinbeck
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Willard Gaylin
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Derek R. Audette
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Gary L. Francione
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Cassandra Clare
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Marilynne Robinson
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• 1 Our Purposes Quote by Alfred Adler