Quotes About Search

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

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.

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The truth is out there.

We're looking for quantum donuts, " said Mike.

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.

Quando (como notavelmente formulado por Erich Fromm) "cada indivíduo deve ir em frente e tentar sua sorte", quando "ele tem que nadar ou afundar" — "a busca compulsiva da certeza" se instala, começa a desesperada busca por "soluções" capazes de "eliminar a consciência da dúvida" — o que quer que prometa "assumir a responsabilidade pela 'certeza'" é bem-vindo.5

You abandon yourself, then start looking for satisfaction. You

But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing.

But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing

We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

A man who needs a mirror is looking for something.

Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

I can't tell you exactly what I'm looking for, but I'll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul. I want to be violated by insight.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

It isn't surprising if, as adults, when we first start to form relationships, we should devotedly go off in search of someone who can give us the all-encompassing, selfless love that we may once have known in childhood. Nor would it be surprising if we were to feel frustrated and in the end extremely bitter at how difficult it seems to be to find; at how seldom people understand what we need or care to help us properly.

If the search for happiness is the underlying quest of our lives, it seems only natural that it should simultaneously be the essential theme to which beauty alludes.

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest—in all its ardour and paradoxes—than our travels.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

For an ordinary man, yes she had replied. But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker

It is pathetic, though. Is it not? You and I, both in pursuit of a ghost