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The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand (Pursuit Quotes)
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it’s not comedy anymore (Pursuit Quotes)
In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step (Pursuit Quotes)
The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions (Pursuit Quotes)
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly (Pursuit Quotes)
Confronted by too much emptiness... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering? (Pursuit Quotes)
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study’s sake. There’s no right or wrong, no pass or fail (Pursuit Quotes)
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious (Pursuit Quotes)
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you’ve solved the mystery (Pursuit Quotes)
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness (Pursuit Quotes)
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment (Pursuit Quotes)
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure (Pursuit Quotes)
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens (Pursuit Quotes)
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it’s the other part that’s usually producing the stuff worth reading (Pursuit Quotes)
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world (Pursuit Quotes)
The second you think you’ve arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit (Pursuit Quotes)
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout (Pursuit Quotes)
There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit (Pursuit Quotes)
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual’s favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality (Pursuit Quotes)
As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence (Pursuit Quotes)
Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (Pursuit Quotes)
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit (Pursuit Quotes)
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean (Pursuit Quotes)
I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted (Pursuit Quotes)
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him (Pursuit Quotes)
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive (Pursuit Quotes)
Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? (Pursuit Quotes)
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry (Pursuit Quotes)
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession (Pursuit Quotes)
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests (Pursuit Quotes)