Desire Quote by Henry Fielding

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

— Philippe de Commines

We are formed by what we desire

— John Irving

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

— Michel Foucault

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the…

— Pope Clement I

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

What we want or desire is not necessarily we need.

— Anonymous

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive…

— Samuel Johnson

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

— Stephen Covey

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson