The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr. American Leader More Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes 9
Scott Fawell was Frankenstein for George Ryan. George Ryan created him, George Ryan let him function. Patrick Collins More Patrick Collins Quotes 5
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. Jean-Francois Lyotard French Philosopher More Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes 1
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Ayn Rand Russian Writer More Ayn Rand Quotes 1
The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function. Stokely Carmichael American Activist More Stokely Carmichael Quotes 1
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Statesman More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes 1
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. Morris West Australian Writer More Morris West Quotes 1
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London American Novelist More Jack London Quotes 1
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. Adolf Loos Austrian Architect More Adolf Loos Quotes 0
The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment. Lydia Lunch American Musician More Lydia Lunch Quotes 0
Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist. Jim Lehrer American Journalist More Jim Lehrer Quotes 0
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. George Henry Lewes English Philosopher More George Henry Lewes Quotes 0
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. Johan Huizinga Dutch Historian More Johan Huizinga Quotes 0
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. Ted Koppel American Journalist More Ted Koppel Quotes 0
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. A. J. Liebling American Journalist More A. J. Liebling Quotes 0
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair. Judith Light American Actress More Judith Light Quotes 0
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. Isabelle Huppert French Actress More Isabelle Huppert Quotes 0
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. Thomas Huxley English Scientist More Thomas Huxley Quotes 0
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. Margaret J. Wheatley American Writer More Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes 0
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice. Wim Wenders German Director More Wim Wenders Quotes 0
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. Wendell Willkie American Lawyer More Wendell Willkie Quotes 0
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. Beverly Sills American Musician More Beverly Sills Quotes 0
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. Herbert Simon American Scientist More Herbert Simon Quotes 0
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. Louise Slaughter American Politician More Louise Slaughter Quotes 0
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. James Q. Wilson American Politician More James Q. Wilson Quotes 0