Quotes About Seeking

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

What you are looking for is what is looking.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee

I know little of magic, Lady,' he said haltingly. 'I am but a woodcutter's son, and there is much that is not given to men to understand; but of this I am sure: there is more to things than we imagine. Beyond the stars are worlds without number, perhaps, and had I never sought to look beyond my own I should be the poorer for it.

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.

Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access.

Non-belief and skepticism go hand and hand; always seeking, but never finding the truth.

The so-called "lawful" way of seeking change was clearly a deception. Thinking about it in her own way based on what she was familiar with, Yasuko wondered if this was the reason why at some of the recent left-wing speech meetings the police outnumbered even the audience.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth" and so it goes away. —Robert M. Pirsig

none of us knows anything. We think we know, then it turns out that we don't. The universe has a way of intervening. Of changing you. In the end, you don't know what you're seeking, and you don't know what you'll find.

For one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like a grain of sand on the beach seeking enlightenment from another.

Comprendre n'est pas justifier, l'empathie autorise cette distinction et l'intelligence permet, par la compréhension, d'adopter une position critique nous permettant de chercher des solutions.

Neither let your minds be perplexed in this: all these things the nations of the world seek; and your Father which is in heaven knows 11 your need of all these things.

He who seeks God will surely find Him—and let him beware when that happens, for it is a gift which can either kill or save or drive mad! Surely it is best only to love Him and let Him reveal Himself gently, as He wills, and not to demand all. For Moses alone saw the Face of God, and of that Vision, it is said, he expired.

The priests led a prayer to Yahweh; they gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged forgiveness for their desire to see more.