Pursuit Quotes - Page 38

• Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Vegetarianism, Perfection, Humanity

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• The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Freedom, Pursuit Of Happiness, Liberty

  Whittaker Chambers (1989). “Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959”, Gateway Books

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• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

  Thomas Huxley

  Knowledge, Science, Ordinary

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

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• Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

  John Herschel

  Knowledge, Science, Students

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1869). “Outlines of Astronomy”, p.17

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• I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

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• A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Men, May

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• We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Teaching, Science, History

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• What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Love, Life, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Butterfly, Air, Hands

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• ...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Responsibility, Doe, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.41, NavPress

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• The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Passion, Science

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• What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.

  Michael Faraday

  Passion, Fighting, Science

  Michael Faraday, Christian Friedirich Schoenbein (1899). “The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters”

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• Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.16, Routledge

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• Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Simple, Giving

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

  Kathleen Turner

  Daughter, Mother, Good Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.

  Zhuangzi

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, May, Human Nature

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.368

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• I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals, the experience of positive emotional feelings, and a sense of spirituality that connects people to things larger than themselves.

  Ed Diener

  Positive, Emotional, People

  Ed Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener (2011). “Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons

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• Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Philosophy, Book, Islamic

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• The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Selfish, Real, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

  George Lucas

  Basketball, Helping Others, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.

  Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

  Hunting, Animal, Python

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• Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and what it has been extremely effective in accomplishing, is to inculcate guilt in connection with pleasure. The pursuit of pleasure, when accompanied by guilt, becomes a means of perpetuating chronic guilt, and this serves to reinforce one's dependence on God.

  George H. Smith

  Mean, Men, Religion

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