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Quotes About Seeking

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. We
~ Ayn Rand
El propósito de la filosofía no es el de buscar el conocimiento, sino el de demostrar que dicho conocimiento es imposible para el hombre.
~ Ayn Rand
Seeking God—and finding itself.
~ Ayn Rand
I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called the truth, whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious and mundane.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great—it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking. Knowledge—power—to know what songs the stars sing; to center all the forces of creation upon a rune drawn in the air—we can never give over the seeking of it. It is the stuff of loneliness.
~ Barbara Hambly
Well, my stars, the thing was like the Bible—look hard enough in its pages, and you'll find what you seek. Love your neighbor, or slay him with the jawbone of an ass.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.
~ Barry Schwartz
We seek not to imitate the masters, rather we seek what they sought," we seek not to imitate past creative synergistic experiences, rather we seek new ones around new and different and sometimes higher purposes.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Unearned knowledge is perilous. Only by the seeking and gaining of it may its uses be understood, its true worth measured.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
~ Steve Martin
A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Kahneman and Tversky conclude that people are not risk-averse across the board, though they are loss-averse: they seek risk if it may avoid a loss.29
~ Steven Pinker
All the world Loves You, but You are nowhere to be found, Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!
~ Rumi
To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.
~ William Johnson Cory
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
~ Anne Lamott
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
~ Byron Katie
We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
~ Byron Katie
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
~ Robert Breault
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
~ Ram Dass
What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.
~ Gangaji
Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
~ Rumi
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
~ Saint Augustine