Feelings Quote by Eyvind Kang

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be…

— George Sarton

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such…

— Paul Bloom

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what…

— John Lancaster Spalding

The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me -…

— Paul Halmos

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

— Richard Hofstadter

“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make us laugh,…

— William McPherson

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

— Lady Jane Grey

Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an…

— Francoise Mouly

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

— Edward Gibbon