Purposive Quotes

#1. Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

Vikram Seth

#2. Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation and analysis.

Edward Hallett Carr

#3. Revelation is purposive. Its end is not simply divine self-display, but the overcoming of human opposition, alienation and pride, and their replacement by knowledge, love and fear of God. In short: revelation is reconciliation.

John B. Webster

#4. But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

John Fowles

#5. An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.

Peter London

#6. Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

William Pfaff

#7. Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Theodore Dalrymple

#8. Confucius sat down to rest, and his students immediately started asking him questions. On that day, he was in a good mood and so decided to answer. Someone asked him:

Paulo Coelho

#9. Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

Gerry Rafferty

#10. What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Thornton Wilder

#11. Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

Jack Dempsey

#12. Great Inititates are characterized less by their cosmic wisdom than by the deep knowledge that they are endless beginners at all times, with an infinity of things to learn

Alan Richardson

#13. In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.

Jenny Holzer

#14. The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

Mark Kurlansky

#15. I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

Henry Miller

#16. Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

Joel Garreau

#17. We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#18. If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

Richelle E. Goodrich