Sole Quotes

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth