A Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Robert A. Heinlein

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End Itself Learning Means Means To An End

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Robert A. Heinlein
American - Writer
July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Joseph Goebbels

If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".

Abdul Kalam

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Ayn Rand

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

Ayn Rand

Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.

Julian Huxley

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Edward Abbey

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Peter Kreeft

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

Gloria Steinem

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

Robert Fripp

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

Henry Hazlitt

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Aldous Huxley

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.