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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas ’tis only a means of attaining it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder–but not the ladder.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Max McKeown

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

Wallace D. Wattles

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

George Bancroft

God’s wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

Wayne Grudem

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

Liz Phair

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

Hugh Gaitskell

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

Henry Hazlitt

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Albert Einstein

Music is only a means to an end – it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

Abdullah Ibrahim

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

Swami Vivekananda

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

Sybil Marshall

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Leon Trotsky

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

Joseph O'Connor

Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

Sallie Krawcheck

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

Saul Alinsky

Any technology is just a skillful means and it’s how you use it.

Anne Waldman

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

Annie Dillard

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