Intentions

Famous quotes containing the word intentions:

“Good intentions are met with good recompense.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Good intentions are not enough. They’ve never put an onion in the soup yet.”
—Sonya Levien (1895–1960)

“A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)