It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we… — Michael Owen Copy Share Image
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about… — David Berg Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The best thing that ever happened to you might be your new job, spouse, awards, etc, but I tell you that being… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
“Don't grieve over the past, It's all gone! Don't worry about the future, It may never come! Live in the present, And… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Every right that we enjoy has a corresponding duty to not interfere with the enjoyment of the same right by others.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word… — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image