Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Being a musician was not my choice; it was really a God-ordained thing, so I'm still passionately chasing after the pursuit of… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five… — Aristotle 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
Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed. — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile. — Mike Berry Copy Share Image