Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. — Mencius
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within… — Rose of Lima
It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all… — Alphonsus Liguori
To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight. — Celia Thaxter
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe,… — Robert Southey
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our… — Deepak Chopra
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. — William Butler Yeats
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in… — Ravi Zacharias
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut… — Pietro Aretino
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight. — Dante Alighieri
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because… — Thomas Aquinas
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the… — Michael Faraday
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring… — Sri Chinmoy

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