Quotes about Desirable
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
- George Bernard Shaw
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
- Cicero
St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.
- Elisabeth Elliot
The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith, is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind. It is, in fact, the view which Reason, both speculative and practical, that is, philosophy and virtue, take. For, seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal; and virtue subordinates it to the mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
- Abraham Lincoln
Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.
- David Brainerd