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Seek Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
- As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property…
- We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when…
- The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
- I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall…
- All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others…
- We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
- The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in…
- We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
- What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I…
- Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
More Seek Quotes
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To seek the highest good is to live well. — Saint Augustine
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon
- You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. — Anita Baker
- I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair,… — Amy Adams
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar