Quotes About Pursuit

What is a question but a moment of discontent in pursuit of understanding? What is an answer but a moment of illusion in our flight from ignorance?

Those who seek security chase it for a lifetime without ever finding it.

He was convinced that Buddha had revealed a truth that every person could recognize: suffering is a fixed part of life. Fleeing from pain and running toward pleasure would never change that fact. Yet most people spent their whole lives avoiding pain and pursuing pleasure. To them, this was only natural, but in reality they were becoming deeply involved in a war they could never win.

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

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

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

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Sir Adam tells me your husband had looked for you prior to the meal that day and couldn't find you," Faucon said. "Where were you?" "Hiding," she said with a sigh. "It's what I do here.

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

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.