Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed… — George W. Melville Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging… — Mike Seabrook Copy Share Image
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin Copy Share Image
One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for… — Cameron Winklevoss Copy Share Image
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more. — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“There are no destinations in the journey of love, it’s the name of a ceaseless pursuit of fragrances in the scorching deserts.” — Abdul Baseer Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
