Quotes About Quest

You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

Here a hint, there a clue, and ever more unanswered questions.

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.

The quest for meaning, which is always begun again by every human intellect, is to human consciousness what a fingerprint is to the body: shared by all, and unique to every individual. A universal singularity.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose." And I had no response.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.

The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

My quest to meet Osama bin Laden began in North London early in 1997. In the Dollis Hill section, I contacted Khaled al-Fauwaz, the spokesman for a Saudi opposition group, the Advice and Reformation Committee, which bin Laden had founded.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.