Affection Quote by Anonymous

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

— Alexander Pope

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

— Samuel Johnson

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

— William Godwin

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

— Quintilian

Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous.

— Confucious

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

— Peter L. Berger

“How would you judge the lawfulness or unlawfulness of "pleasure?" Use this rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures…

— Susanna Wesley

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

— Confucius

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience,…

— Robert Southey