Seeks Quotes
753 quotes by 577 authors
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The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
— Sol Stein
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,…
— Sigmund Freud
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There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly…
— Hannah Arendt
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I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy…
— John F. Kennedy
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If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
— Leo Tolstoy
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its…
— Vaclav Havel
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Some people are very earnest after the things of God, and he who seeks finds, and the more he seeks in the right direction the…
— Charles W. Penrose
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with…
— Jerry Bridges
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The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and…
— Thomas Merton
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Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met…
— Pierre Berton
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Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
— Rumi
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The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from…
— Alfred Kinsey
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.
— William Sloane Coffin
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And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on…
— Luke the Evangelist
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Real kindness seeks no return.
— Thiruvalluvar
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Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
— George Iles
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Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is…
— Gautama Buddha
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Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to bring about an…
— Glenda Green
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The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.
— Christie Golden
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