Quotes About Pleasure

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

human desires are the main cause of suffering

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Enjoy life, it has an expiration date

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.