Quotes About Search

The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said