“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
We sometimes forget that we are God-beings, and that the intent of the Creator was for us to enjoy this thing called… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch. "But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the enjoyment of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes will need to follow what makes us happy and think less about our pain and difficulties,Because a single moment of happiness… — Juniorjk Copy Share Image
Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. — Oskar Homolka Copy Share Image
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
“If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the… — Beck Copy Share Image
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
