Logo
Quote by Tryon Edwards
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

Other quotes by Tryon Edwards

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

Category:
Quotations
Author
Tryon Edwards
Read Quote

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

Category:
Education
Author
Tryon Edwards
Read Quote

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated. – Tryon Edwards

Category:
Faith
Author
Tryon Edwards
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
AIDS
category

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

Category:
AIDS

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. – James Anderton

Category:
AIDS

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. – Joel Hawes

Category:
AIDS

We are all HIV-positive. – Diamanda Galas

Category:
AIDS

Random Quotes

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. – Bobby Scott

Category:
Education

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. – Ernst Mach

Category:
Experience

I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – Emily Dickinson

Category:
Suffering

It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. – Edouard Manet

Category:
Imagination