6,483 Quotes About Purpose

What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

I know very well about the necessary level of reserves of the Central Bank as well as the purpose.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

These airstrikes have one purpose alone, and that is to stop the genocide.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.