Desire Quote by Nicholas Murray

“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem…

— Nicholas Murray

“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seem…

— Aldous Huxley

“We do want progress in our knowledge and growth in our understanding, but we have to be careful not to be lured into the…

— R.C. Sproul

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise…

— Umberto Eco

“Huxley believed tat anyone "with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality" could do far more good "by sticking to his curious activities…

— Nicholas Murray

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education,” it was said by Professor Huxley, “is the ability to make yourself do the thing you…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess…

— Augustus Toplady

“These technical impediments [... things like ignorance, impatience, unexamined assumptions, habit ...] get in the way of what would otherwise occur or develop quite…

— H.M. Forester

“Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.”

— L.H. Sigourney

“Scientists have discovered that the more we resist temptation, think deeply, or focus intensely, the better we become at doing”

— Brad Stulberg

“On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of…

— Robert Walser