Desire Quotes - page 22

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future. (Jaggi Vasudev)
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire. View quote
Robert Burns
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. View quote
Isabel Allende
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. View quote
Plato
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is. View quote
Aristotle
Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. (C. S. Lewis)
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing. View quote
Quentin Crisp
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news. View quote
Larry Wall
In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use. View quote
Donald Norman
There is no greater crime than desire. View quote
Laozi
It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire? View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. (Adam Smith)
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked. View quote
Jimmy Carr
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. View quote
Allen Tate