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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”

World Giving Kind Passion Reading Education Moral Knowledge Morality Experience Wide Illumination Greatest Gifts Console Knowledge Of The World

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.”

Lying Passion Pleasure Knowledge Learning Source Remedy Unending Love Of Learning

Author:Emilie du Chatelet

“We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.”

Ifs Knows Should Desire Passion Knowledge

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.”

“3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).”

Heart Passion Three Sound Principles Knowledge Design Communication And Love Technique Genuine Designer Requirements Professionalism Graphic Design Good Design Great Design

Author:Lester Beall

“It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.”

Men Want Mind Ideas Science Passion Secret Knowledge Progress Development Discovery Logic Property Errors Mysterious Ministers Sparks Demonstration Charter

Book:Lectures on Modern History

Source: Lectures on Modern History

“It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.”

Knows Inspirational Action Passion Knowledge Knowing Greatness Productivity Not Knowing Knowing What To Do Knowing And Doing

Author:Tony Robbins

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

Life Suffering Passion Three Strong Fear Simple Knowledge Atheism Mankind Longing Rage Pity Unbearable Search For Knowledge Pity Love

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”

Love Inspirational Choices Passion Three Work Knowledge Learning Conditions Essentials Management Composer Conductor Love Passion Living Your Passion Positive Behavior

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.”

“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”

Passion Knowledge Champion Zeal

Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?”

Action Passion Belief Knowledge Materials Products Essentials Experience Reasoning Statistics

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.”

Has Beens Whole Passion Lost Knowledge Whole Life Charm Present Day

Author:Liliʻuokalani

“It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.”

Men Giving Different Political Passion Social Common Knowledge Influence Conditions Position Universal Enjoyment Social Conditions

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.”

Knows Men Want Doe Science Order Passion Knowledge Discovery Acquire Want Me Appease

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.”

People Love Giving Firsts Children Ends God Shows Religion Faith Passion Speak Compassion Knowledge Teach Kindness Learning Love You Politician Treats Sells Neighbor You Choose Show Me Extremist

Author:Cory Booker

“The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.”

Men May Use Certain Suffering Passion Sex Knowledge Share Effects Fame Solitude Expenses Amusement Moderates Studious Use Of Knowledge

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”

Mind Passion Knowledge Active Inward Vigor Exertion Power Of The Mind

Book:The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27

Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27

“With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.”

Knows Men Heart Littles Passion Stars Numbers Knowledge Equal Achievement Shining Curiosity Mathematical Flux

Book:The Quotable Bertrand Russell

Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell

“Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.”

Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu