#purpose

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#empty #mind #open #purpose #replace

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#here #improper #me #noun #proper

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#every #forcing #him #life #long

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11. ↗

— Bill Frist

#daily #daily lives #devote #duty #ensuring

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#awful #awful thing #blackness #complete #despair

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#i #out #purpose #puzzle #think

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#against #another #committed #cruelty #men

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#carried #consular #designed #green #identification