Giving Quote by John Ruskin

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

— John Ruskin

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

“When self-knowledge is realized, all worldly knowledge ceases to exist.”

— Shiva Negi

“as George Eliot has wisely observed. Pleasure ceases to be pleasure when we attain to it; another sort of pleasure displays itself to tempt…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

— Aphra Behn

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

— Ovid

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are…

— John Ruskin

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and…

— Frederick Lenz

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

— Stendhal

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

— Anonymous

It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's…

— Alice Waters