Wonder connected with a principle of rational curiosity is the source of all knowledge and discover and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder and is satisfied with wonder is the quality of an idiot.

I think a lot of people even Christians are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work you don't get ill.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man I shall be satisfied.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it.

In Scotland the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it was done and I am satisfied with it.

As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and strange as it may seem am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

God was satisfied with his own work and that is fatal.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends good food and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Not necessity not desire - no the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health food a place to live entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.