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Letter "D" » discontent
«For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
discontent, required, social justice, social rights, thorough
«Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
afternoon, boring, discontent, doing nothing, Eden, glorious, hillside, link, paradise, sit back
«Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
discontent, fitted, if not, musician, restlessness
«Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
content, discontent, discontents, poor, rich
«Creativity is discontent translated into arts»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
arts, discontent, translated, translates, translating
«Discontent is the first necessity of progress.»
«HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cheery, comely, deficient, denies, discontent, earthly, houri, inhabiting, Mohammedan, Mohammedans, spouse
«Discontent is the seed of ethics»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Discontent
| Keywords:
discontent, discontents, ethics, seed
«Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Discontent,
Progress
| Keywords:
discontent, discontents, first step, nation, progress, step in
«Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Discontent
| Keywords:
discontent, discontents, infirmity, reliance, self reliance
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