Famous Quotes
162 Quotations with Pursuit.
- 1. Igor Stravinsky: I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and ...
- 2. C. P. Snow: The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness yo ...
- 3. Dugald Stewart: The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the princi ...
- 4. Clarence Darrow: The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
- 5. John Locke: Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why ch ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same o ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a s ...
- 11. Thomas Jefferson: Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty ...
- 12. Oscar Wilde: The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pu ...
- 13. Denis de Rougemont: Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turn ...
- 14. Werner Heisenberg: A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very he ...
- 15. John Maynard Keynes: The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any r ...
- 16. George Jean Nathan: Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become impo ...
- 17. Pliny the Younger: An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- 18. Lawana Blackwell: I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to ...
- 19. US Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that the ...
- 20. Alexander Hamilton: Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has be ...