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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 5 likes | |
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 5 likes | |
The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher 5 likes | |
The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 5 likes | |
What you seek is seeking you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes | |
That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes | |
The noblest search is the search for excellence. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 4 likes | |
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes | |
When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You Haven't! — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 3 likes | |
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes | |
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes | |
Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 3 likes | |
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes | |
I do not seek. I just find. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes | |
Find first, seek later. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 2 likes | |
Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 2 likes | |
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 2 likes | |
One must look for one thing only, to find many. | |
I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare. | |
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. | |
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or an unfinished song. | |
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. | |
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. | |
I do not explain, I explore. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist | |
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist | |
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. | |
Searching means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. | |
I must find a truth that is true for me. |
Latin Quotes
Not who but what. Non quis, sed quid. 38 likes |
Quotes in Verse
I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 9 likes | |
The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 4 likes | |
Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes | |
I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When and How and Why and Who. | |
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. |
Funny Quotes
I'm in search of myself have you seen me anywhere? — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
He who does not hope for the unexpected, will not find it. Εάν μη έλπηται ανέλπιστον, ουκ εξευρήσει. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes | |
I am looking for a human. Άνθρωπον ζητώ. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher (walking around with a lamp in broad daylight) 3 likes |