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Quotes About Seeking

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.
~ Richard Dawkins
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
~ Abraham Cowley
It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.
~ Danny Carey
If you are seeking fame without the requisite talent, you might wander.
~ Amala Akkineni
Seven Words' is a wanderer's tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.
~ Weyes Blood
I was a very wanting child.
~ Loretta Young
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.
~ Petro Poroshenko
If he was going to figure out his life, he had a feeling he needed more time on his knees, lifting up holy hands without doubt.
~ Rachel Hauck
Most important, the reason I wrote this book is to serve as proof that miracles do happen, that love can and does heal wounds, that there is hope for those with the courage and fortitude to seek healing.
~ Rachel Reiland
How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love?
~ Rachel Simon
How many others are out there? How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love?
~ Rachel Simon
If answers are the destination, questions are the oars.
~ Rachel Vail
In seeking other than in myself—as men will—the causes of my tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon those who held my mother at the baptismal font and concerted that she should bear the name of Monica.
~ Rafael Sabatini
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you'd suspect, the answer you'll get is, "Sure.
~ Randy Pausch
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
~ Ray Bradbury
He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.
~ Raymond Queneau
I chose to go on my own accord, my own thoughts, and thought it would be beneficial for me to go out to Cliffside in Malibu, Calif., and seek out some help and see what could be done.
~ Josh Gordon
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.
~ Erik Larson
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
~ William James
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
~ Marianne Williamson
From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder                Thales sipped cheap wine                And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!
~ Rebecca Goldstein