Means Quotes

• The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Means

• I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Give
  • Means
  • Number

• We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

  

  Arthur Kleinman
  • Human
  • Dangers
  • Uncertainties

• We're not going to waltz into the postseason by any means.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Means
  • Waltz
  • Postseason

• Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
  • Life
  • Means
  • Guidance

• We have to get serious about living within our means.

  

  Juan Enriquez
  • Living
  • Get
  • Means

• Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.

  

  Nick McDonell
  • World
  • Means
  • Accused

• Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Swaraj
  • Prosecution

• To some men knowledge of the universe has been an end possessing in itself a value that is absolute: to others it has seemed a means of useful applications.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Knowledge
  • Universe
  • End

• We're in the sunshine. That means negatives will come out. That's OK.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Means
  • Sunshine
  • Negatives

• To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Real
  • Respect
  • Honor

• No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Life
  • Means
  • Lunatic asylum

• Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Diversity
  • Means
  • Untouchability

• Daring to dream means daring to live.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Daring

• I’m just trying to act black. Whatever that means. What exactly is acting black? I’m not sure what that is.

  

  Amara La Negra
  • Black
  • Acting
  • Means

• We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Creatures
  • Ourselves
  • Sanity

• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

  

  Georges Bernanos
  • Means
  • Corruption
  • Justifies

• Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least of the truths obtained through divine revelation; thus we can argue with heretics from texts in Holy Writ, and against those who deny one article of faith we can argue from another. If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections - if he has any - against faith.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Science
  • Scripture
  • Heretics

• No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

  

  Aurangzeb
  • Means
  • Master
  • Calumnies

• For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

  

  Wilhelm Rontgen
  • Important
  • Photography
  • Discovery

• Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Regard

• The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Means
  • Instruments
  • Designs

• Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Good
  • Energy

• The end is inherent in the means.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Inherent
  • The End

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