interest quotes

• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. (William Morris) [happiness/interest/life]
• People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. (Henry Kissinger) [people/take/interest/form]
• All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. (Thomas Mann) [interest/disease/death/interest]
• It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. (Henry James) [art/life/interest]
• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. ( Aristotle) [interest]
• Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. (Francis Beaumont) [interest/people]
• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. (Walter Benjamin) [matter/interest]
• There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. ( Napoleon I) [men/interest/fear]
• There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest. ( Napoleon I) [men/fear/interest]
• Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest ( Napoleon I) [men/fear/interest]
• It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. (Edmund Burke) [interest/wealth]
• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. (Edmund Burke) [hostile/interest]
• For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. (Miguel De Cervantes) [interest/fear/hatred/path]
• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. (Charles Caleb Colton) [genius/posterity/interest]
• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. (Charles Caleb Colton) [youth/age/interest]
• The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. (Denis Diderot) [interest/take/insight/genius]
• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [interest/knowledge/system/men]
• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/interest/find]
• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value (Irving Fisher) [interest/acts]
• If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin) [take/knowledge/interest]
• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. (Benjamin Franklin) [interest/intellect]
• Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. (Benjamin Franklin) [speak/interest]
• Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [agreeable/interest/action]
• When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. (William Hazlitt) [thing/interest]
• The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. (William Hazlitt) [power/mind/interest/vanity]
• We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. (Georg Hegel) [knowledge/interest]
• It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. (Henry James) [art/life/interest/beauty]
• He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless. (Samuel Johnson) [wife/mind/interest/evil]
• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [more/interest/order]
• The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [motion/interest]
• Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. (Doris Lessing) [interest]

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