Content Quotes - page 2

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. View quote
Immanuel Kant
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. View quote
René Daumal
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. View quote
José Martí
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. View quote
Horace Mann
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. View quote
Montesquieu
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. View quote
Aleister Crowley
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. View quote
Epictetus
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. (Samuel Johnson)
There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles. View quote
Anne Bancroft
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. View quote
Stephen Harper
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread. View quote
Jack Dorsey
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. (Jane Austen)
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. View quote
José Saramago
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time. View quote
John Cale
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. View quote
Plautus