Desire Quote by Aldous Huxley

“... one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which…

— Nicholas Murray

“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem…

— Nicholas Murray

“To feel, and think, and learn—learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense. And most people seem to want…

— Jane Fletcher Geniesse

“A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.”

— George Eliot

“Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.”

— Missionaries Who Love The Arab World

“We do want progress in our knowledge and growth in our understanding, but we have to be careful not to be lured into the…

— R.C. Sproul

“Then, as we grow older and enter middle age, something else begins to change. Our energy level drops. Our identity solidifies. We know who…

— Mark Manson

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

— Anonymous

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy…

— Friedrich Schiller

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

“Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.”

— TemitOpe Ibrahim

“Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.”

— L.H. Sigourney