#delight

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #delight




The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.


Yoko Ogawa


#delight #guesses #math #struggle #math

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?


Charles Baudelaire


#delight #paris

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.


Charles Baudelaire


#certainty #committing #delight #evil #found

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.


Edgar Degas


#absolutely nothing #charming #conversation #delightful #nothing

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'


Alice Walker


#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.


Dick Gregory


#loss #much #possession #riches #their

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.


Michael D. Higgins


#back #came #delighted #first #forever

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.


Michael D. Higgins


#clearly #commitment #delighted #i #i am

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.


Francis Bacon


#delight #ornaments #serve #studies

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.


Daniel Boone


#fund #here #nature #series #wonders