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

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.
Chris Morris

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye

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

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Carrie P. Snow

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
Loretta Swit

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Ralph A. Cram

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin Disraeli

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario Cuomo