Seeks Quotes
753 quotes by 577 authors
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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks…
— Octavio Paz
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Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
— Max Lucado
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Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the…
— Jerry Bridges
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The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot…
— E. O. Wilson
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed.…
— Jon Stewart
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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
— John Green
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People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The…
— Hjalmar Söderberg
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There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with…
— Peter Rollins
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
— James Oppenheim
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God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.
— Forrest Church
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I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen…
— H. L. Mencken
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No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
— Adolf Hitler
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Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
— Bell Hooks
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It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
— Saint Augustine
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Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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