T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.”
“The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.”
“The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents.”
“The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!”
“The purpose of being tough is not to attack, but to protect. The purpose of being strong is not to dominate, but to support. The purpose of having power is not to rule, but to serve. What I've learned is that to be a true man is to be the ultimate servant. With any talent or advantage that life has give you, whether by birth or by circumstance, your duty is to use that advantage in the service of others.”
Source: Tough: My Journey to True Power
“The purpose of Biblical history is to trace the victory of Jesus Christ.”
Source: The Biblical Philosophy of History
“The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.”
“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.”
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
Source: EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE
“The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.”
“The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education: accept no substitutes. The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that's what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning - the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons - then you did it wrong. Go back and do it again.”
Source: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
“The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.”
“The purpose of computers is human freedom.”
“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.”
“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.”
“The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“The purpose of creation is so that the one infinite Creator may know itself by experiencing itself. Extrapolating from this, your purpose is to know your perceived self by experiencing yourself.”
Source: Edifying Children of a Lesser God, answers to life's existential questions.
“The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.”
“The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.”
Source: Illuminata: A Return to Prayer
“The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.”
“The purpose of data is to learn on time what is working and what is not and take any corrective actions according to that.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“The purpose of dating is to collect date, not sleep with them.”
“The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.”
“The purpose of deep study is to ascend into the higher planes where God, His mercy, and ultimately eternal life are. God has come down in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ and the gift Jesus Christ bestows upon humanity is called Christ, Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Source: Introducing Adam Kadmon
“The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures”
Source: The Portable Walt Whitman
“The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.”
“The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.”
“The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.”
Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet
“The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.”
“THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IS TO MAKE A PERSON ONES OWN COMPETITOR.”
“The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.”
“The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.”
“The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us”
“The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.”
“The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.”
“The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.”
“The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.”
Source: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
“The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.”
“The purpose of education should be character-building.”
“The purpose of education should be to nourish and strengthen a student's capacity, not to force-feed all students the same material, till they either pass some baseless test, or drop out of education altogether, - or commit suicide.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.”
“The purpose of empowerment is to urge you towards freedom, to help each of you to break free of all limitations. It is that freedom that will give you eternal happiness and finally connect you with the unconditional realization of TRUTH.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.”
“The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.”
“The purpose of event management is to create a client who creates other clients.”
Source: Wealth of Words