Quotes About Quest

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey

Most people who go on identity quests are like children going treasure hunting. They find only what their parents have hidden for them in advance

If you believe in an absolute truth revealed by a transcendent power, you cannot allow yourself to admit any error, for that would nullify your whole story. But if you believe in a quest for truth by fallible humans, admitting blunders is part of the game.

Without government planning, economic resources and scientific research, individuals will not get far in their quest for happiness.

la vida moderna consiste en una búsqueda constante del poder en el seno de un universo desprovisto de sentido.

and it seemed to me—Oh, I don't know! As if it held all the things I've always tried to find in everything else.

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more.

Cookies, a dragon dog, and a sword: what every well-equipped little girl takes on a journey.

Seeking is really just a way of winning yourself back. But

There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.

You are hurrying to the sweet place, to the nonsense chasing your spirit and in the nonsense you look for answers.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

all of them coursing toward a place that officially did not exist.

What you are seeking, is seeking you.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.

I seek and search for the light of knowledge.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.