Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning. — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
“I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.” — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved. — Jack White Copy Share Image
Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
