Aim Quotes

• Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Energy
  • Philosophy
  • Aim

• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Books
  • Students
  • Aim

• The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Democracy
  • Internet
  • Aim

• Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • May
  • Stills
  • Feet

• "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Childhood
  • Pride
  • Birth

• If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.

  

  Angus Buchan
  • Sin
  • Aim
  • Serving

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Danger
  • Aim
  • Achieving

• The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Balance
  • Aim
  • Inner

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