Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

• Passion
• Ambition
• Comparison
• Astronomy

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• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

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• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
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• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Passion

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Passion
  • Cook

• Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Ambition
  • More
  • Down

• It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • You
  • Passion
  • Your

• Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Give

• It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Passion
  • Talent

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • You
  • Passion
  • Fighting

• That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's no question that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, I'll be pretty burned out. And when that time comes, then I'll take a step back and take a look at it and see if I want to keep going.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Job

• All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Power
  • Party
  • Ambition

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Ambition
  • Nomination

• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Passion

• Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Passion
  • Mankind
  • Jealousy

• I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Bike

• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • America
  • Culture
  • Style

• My life was very Japanese.

  

  Bryan Clay
  • Life
  • Japanese

• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Passion
  • Ambition
  • Comparison