Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the… — Robert S. Mulliken
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought. — Unknown Author
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will… — Sun Tzu
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active… — Sidney Jourard
It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these… — Peter Cosgrove
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process… — Henry A. Kissinger
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough… — Thomas Merton
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so… — Unknown Author
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate… — Thomas Piketty
Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests… — Ralph Raico
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of… — Benjamin Disraeli
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a… — John Boyle O'Reilly
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force. — Immanuel Wallerstein
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the… — Pope John Paul II
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for… — Max Lucado
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in… — James Madison
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a… — John Burroughs
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the… — Thomas Jefferson
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong… — Stephen Foster
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half… — Harriet Martineau

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