Aim Quotes
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt
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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.
Susanne Langer
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My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'
Vincent Van Gogh
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Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.
George Washington
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
Emily Gould
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It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.
Eric Maisel
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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.
Baruch Spinoza
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no art without a poetic aim.
Edouard Vuillard
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I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.
Jason Mraz
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
Oscar Wilde
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The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.
Enos Mills
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Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.
William H. Gass
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Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
Winfield Scott Hancock
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It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.
Adolphus Busch
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
