I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual realm that encompasses all beings. Make friends with the angels, who will always be with you, although invisible.… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image