A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

- Derek Jarman

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

- David Henry Hwang

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

- David Antin

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

- Dorothy Day

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

- Denis Waitley

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

- David Ogilvy

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

- Chris Morris

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

- Clarence Darrow

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

- Camille Paglia

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

- Alain Ducasse

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

- Bob Brown

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

- Benjamin Disraeli

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

- Antoine Rivarol

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

- Andrew Vachss

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

- Anne Sweeney

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

- Amy Bloom

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

- Apolo Ohno

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

- Alex Pareene