Quests Quotations

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color?

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam

The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her? -Queen Sorcha