Quotes about Means

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.

He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world.

That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own. That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.

So, I think the bureaucratic religions try to institutionalize your perception of the numinous instead of providing the means so you can perceive the numinous directly—like looking through a six-inch telescope. If sensing the numinous is at the heart of religion, who's more religious would you say—the people who follow the bureaucratic religions or the people who teach themselves science?

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

You and I realize that the blood Christ shed on the cross is the means of remission for our sins. But Hebrews 10:22 says it is also the means for the complete cleansing of the consciences of those who already know Christ.