Quest Quotes
541 quotes by 450 authors
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
— Hal Borland
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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media…
— John Donne
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Life is a quest and love a quarrel
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and…
— Surya Das
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People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.
— Paulo Coelho
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a…
— Rumi
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to…
— Anthony de Mello
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I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a…
— Daniel Goleman
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...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
— James Jeans
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It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
— Karl Popper
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
— Albert Einstein
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At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the…
— William Osler
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We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which…
— Ernest Holmes
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Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society…
— John Polkinghorne
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Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that…
— Joseph Brodsky
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There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked…
— Roger Wolcott Sperry
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Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
— Sam Ewing
Who Wrote These Quest Quotes
450 authors contributed a total of 541 Quest Quotes, led by these top contributors: