Quotes About Search

Perpetually restless, Thomas Wolfe was "without a home — a vagabond since [he] was seven" and seeking out where he belonged physically (i.e. in Asheville, his home or Harvard) as well as intellectually. This concept that he was indeed without a father led him to gain greater understanding, eventually realizing that his search for a patriarch was not merely a "father in the flesh," but a substitution for God, a guiding light, and an alluring source of inspiration.

The great library that Google is rushing to create shouldn't be confused with the libraries we've known up until now. It's not a library of books. It's a library of snippets.

A search engine often draws our attention to a particular snippet of text, a few words or sentences that have strong relevance to whatever we're searching for at the moment, while providing little incentive for taking in the work as a whole. We don't see the forest when we search the Web. We don't even see the trees. We see twigs and leaves.

Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.

there was no doubt in the world that I was in control of those sessions. The guys knew. So I would try to get the sound down there on the microphone in a cohesive and harmonic medium that started up here in my head. 'I find that search on every song we've ever made: that search for a lost sound.

Matter signals to its lost voyagers, telling them that their quest is vain, and that their homeland already lies in ashes behind them.

She tries to search her heart, but the map is old and the compass is faulty.

She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn't see the pattern. There was a piece missing.

I don't want to be Marghe the anthopologist who examines seashells on the beach and moves on. I don't think I am her anymore. But I don't know who I want to be.

Nicht nach der Wahrheit zu suchen ist ein Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; doch es ist kein Zeichen der Größe, sie zu finden.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.

After all, the realtor had taken Wendy to fifteen other houses. She was working for her money.

The world is full of contradictions; hence your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within.

We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer. Psychologists have referred to this function of the human brain as the embedded presupposition factor.

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Why had a gold hoop earring, one of a pair, tuned up on the kitchen floor when she was

Morality was viewed by the Egyptians not as the assertion of self against the world but rather as the individual search for harmony with the eternal order ... The Egyptian was free to seek out a place in a benevolent world order, but he was not to disrupt it by either nonconformity or self-abnegation.