William Godwin Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  William Godwin

  Real, Desire, Study

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.78

• Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

  William Godwin

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Desire

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

• The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

  William Godwin

  Desire, And Love, Reason

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

• The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

  William Godwin

  Boys, Men, Independence

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