Aim Quotes - page 3

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. (Oscar Wilde)
The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. View quote
William Faulkner
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. View quote
Gichin Funakoshi
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. View quote
Denis Diderot
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. View quote
Paul Dirac
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action. View quote
Learned Hand
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. (Frederick William Robertson)
However often we turn to it the Koran at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence.... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The aim of living is life itself. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. View quote
Aristotle
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . View quote
Eileen Caddy
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. View quote
Elihu Root
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. (Nathan Deal)
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. View quote
Edward Thorndike
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. View quote
Barbara Amiel
In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. View quote
Roone Arledge
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi