Quotes About Quest

and he would be at the doorstep of the Indies.

Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.

There is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Friend, God's will is not something that you can find through trial and error. Rather, you discover it through your intimate relationship with Him—through prayer and Bible study as you strive to know Him better. If you have been on a quest to "find God" or "track down His will," stop searching and simply talk to Him. He knows where you are, and He knows exactly where you need to go. No roadmap could promise more.

That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained.

I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.

I'm actually after another notion here—what I've called Quest. Quest has to do with the intersection of your own personal life and the art of poetry in your time and place. It has to do with what you want to do with poetry and what poetry wants to do with you. It has to do with coming to understand who you are and who you hope to be when you are reborn through language and imagination as a poet.

Quien encuentra hace rato que está buscando, aunque no lo sepa.»

Your taste in film is a quest. You have a palate and you must refine it to match your essence. Never settle and never follow blindly.

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.

The problem was, it was as easy to be killed on a foolish quest in the company of fools as on an adventure of merit beside men one respected and trusted.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

One of the goals of alchemists was to concoct the "elixir," a panacea that would heal all ills and prolong all lives. This miraculous substance had many names, the most inclusive being lapis philosophorum, philosophers' stone.

There are times what you want will come to you. And there are times you have to go out and find it for yourself.

Perhaps I have reason to believe that I had somewhere else to be.

Thus, soul solicits us even as we seek it. The German poet Friedrich Hölderlin expressed the paradox this way: "That which thou seekst is near, and already coming to meet thee.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

The shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! his heart seemed to cry. Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. Where?

We must go to Athens.

The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica.

So that's how to the dark tower I came.