DeWitt Clinton Quotes

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.