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QUOTES including the word: "content"

Leo Tolstoy:
  • If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

    • Diogenes:
  • He has the most who is most content with the least.

    • Shakespeare:
  • Now is the winter of our discontent.

    • Skinner:
  • We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

    • Levi-Strauss:
  • Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

    • Anne Sullivan:
  • Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

    • Horace:
  • We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

    • Horace:
  • You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

    • Ezra Pound:
  • “No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

    • Darwin:
  • The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

    • Laozi:
  • When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

    • Salvador Dali:
  • The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

    • Immanuel Kant:
  • Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

    • Plato:
  • The greatest wealth is to be content with little.

    • Laozi:
  • Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

    • Octavio Paz:
  • Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

    • Socrates:
  • He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

    • Paul Valery:
  • Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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