Finding Quotes

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. (Thucydides)
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. View quote
Isaac Newton
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. View quote
Groucho Marx
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. View quote
Jennifer Lopez
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. View quote
Gertrude Stein
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. View quote
Paul Valéry
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian? View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. View quote
Phil Ochs
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. (Honoré de Balzac)
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. View quote
Sophia Bush
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. View quote
Tom Clancy