Found Quote by James Smithson Download Open image “It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.” — James Smithson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Found Greatness Happiness Knowledge Men
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. — Democritus Copy Share Image
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. — James Smithson Copy Share Image
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals… — James Smithson Copy Share Image
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men. — James Smithson Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image