Seeking Quotes
1388 quotes by 1025 authors
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the…
— Sun Tzu
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A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say,…
— Walter Lippmann
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
— Roger Caras
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We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and…
— Ignatius Loyola
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If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
— Bill Shankly
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
— George Eliot
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous…
— Theodore Parker
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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
— Maria Montessori
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In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.…
— Clifford Stoll
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
— David Riesman
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We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons…
— Cesar Chavez
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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office.…
— Cesar Chavez
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
— William Faulkner
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for…
— Albert Einstein
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An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets…
— Andre Gide
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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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