Seek Quotes - page 5

It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution. (Anton Chekhov)
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. View quote
Brian Tracy
The range of human potentialities is also the range of human needs because of man's vital drive that impels him to seek to realize his potentialities. this drive is even more mysterious than the potentialities it seeks to realize. View quote
Carroll Quigley
War loves to seek its victims in the young. View quote
Sophocles
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. View quote
Franz Boas
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. View quote
Walter Scott
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. View quote
Nikola Tesla
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. View quote
Franz Kafka
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. (Immanuel Kant)
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste. View quote
Marc Chagall
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like? View quote
John Chrysostom
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. View quote
Martha Beck
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Regulation may be actively sought by an industry, or it may be thrust upon it. View quote
George Stigler
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. (Dean Karnazes)
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. View quote
Elihu Root
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. View quote
Elihu Root
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society. View quote
Christian Lous Lange