Ardor Quotes

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.