Famous quotes containing the word pursuit:
“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912–1991)
“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)