Attainment

Famous quotes containing the word attainment:

“That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing more than earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“I do not pretend that language is science. It is ... an instrument for the attainment of science.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)