Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost… — Samuel Smiles 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 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
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
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
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
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 don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The word philosophy simply means a pursuit of wisdom, the purpose of life, and a search for Truth. However, this quest, because… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
