I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

- Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

- Abigail Adams

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.

- Marquis de Lafayette

But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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

- Ambrose Bierce

You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor.

- Malak El Halabi

Red Rover, Red Rover, send Ardor right over," Eliza said. They laughed. The asteroid was a little bigger now, brighter, and still they went on laughing. Laughing in the face of what they couldn't predict or change or control. Would it be fire and brimstone? Would it be Armageddon? Or would it be a second chance? Eliza held tight to her friends, laughing, and a pair of hands land soft as feathers on her shoulders, like the hands of a ghost, laughing and laughing as Ardor swept along its fated course, laughing and through that laughter, praying. Praying for forgiveness. Praying for grace. Praying for mercy. 0

- Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

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

- Aldous Huxley