Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

Nasser Joudeh

The pursuit is still going on and the investigations into this are being conducted.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Aberjhani

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

Edward Everett

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

Shannon Rempel

Our pursuit team is very strong, and can win a medal. I want to be part of that.

Dalai Lama

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, ""Our Father,"" acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind

Gerhard Kocher

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

Bertrand Russel

Mankind . . . are a mistake. The universe would be sweeter and fresher without them

Joseph Addison

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Baruch Spinoza

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Gabriel Polk

Because of the way you were acting. I didn't need his evidence. I saw your delusions myself.

Sally Johnson

His symptoms will go into remission sufficiently enough to stand trial. There is a high likelihood that he will regain competency. His interest and his interpersonal functioning has been improving. (But) his delusional thoughts have continued.

Nick Flynn

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

Bill Moyers

The delusional is no longer marginal.

Saint Ignatius

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

Chuck Palahniuk

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Oliver Goldsmith

I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.

Xavier Amador

One of his delusions drove him to testify, If I can just get up and talk to the American people, I will be set free.

Bhagavad Gita

One who neither hates the presence of enlightenment, activity, and delusion nor desires for them when they are absent.