Seeks Quotes
753 quotes by 577 authors
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Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban.
— Andrew Ryan
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On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and…
— Eric Butterworth
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The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the…
— Richard Bode
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Whoever seeks honor [by marrying a woman] will be tested with lowliness, and whoever seeks wealth [by marrying a woman] will be tested with poverty,…
— Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah
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What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks…
— Winston Churchill
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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
— Bill Vaughan
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above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted…
— John Keats
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest…
— Edward Gibbon
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would…
— Andre Gide
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The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
— Mason Cooley
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for…
— Pierre de Coubertin
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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic…
— Jim Hightower
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He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
— David Hilbert
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