Purpose Quotes

5907 Purpose quotes by 3153 unique authors

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without… — Ayn Rand
Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless. — Sivananda
In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center… — Stephen Covey
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and… — E. O. Wilson
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. — Florence Nightingale
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in… — Leo Szilard
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.… — Richard Dawkins
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose. — Margaret Fuller
Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole as clearly and… — George Polya
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the… — John Herschel
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human… — Ambrose Bierce
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,… — Henri Poincare
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be… — Richard Dawkins
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes… — Charles Kettering
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this… — Elizabeth Hardwick
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill

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