The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCA human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCThe purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCOnly connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910