Seek Quotes - page 2

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. (W. Somerset Maugham)
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. View quote
Washington Irving
Seek simplicity, then distrust. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. View quote
William S. Burroughs
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful? View quote
James Tiptree, Jr
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. View quote
Frances Burney
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. View quote
Thomas Browne
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. View quote
Alexander Smith
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. View quote
Václav Havel
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. View quote
William Blake
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? View quote
William Blake
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. View quote
Rumi
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. (Kahlil Gibran)
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, - nothing so expensive as glory. View quote
Sydney Smith
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. View quote
William Shakespeare
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