Searching Quotes

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. (Bertrand Russell)
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. View quote
Geddy Lee
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. View quote
Jim Rohn
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers--in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. View quote
Arvo Pärt
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. View quote
Richard Bach
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. View quote
John Irving
Roaming through the jungle of oohs and ahs, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. View quote
Duke Ellington
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. View quote
Anna Quindlen
Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within. View quote
Prem Rawat
I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have. View quote
Mary Balogh
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice. View quote
Charlie Trotter
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. View quote
Galen Rowell
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. View quote
Robert Vaughan
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. View quote
Roy H. Williams
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience. View quote
Rollo May
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. (Haruki Murakami)
Traditionally, economic analysis treats the economic system as one of the givens. The term "design" in the title is meant to stress that the structure of the economic system is to be regarded as an unknown. An unknown in what problem? Typically that of finding a system that would be, in a sense to be specified, superior to the existing one. The idea of searching for a better system is at least as ancient as Plato's Republic, but it is only recently that tools have become available for a systematic, analytical approach to such search procedures. This new approach refuses to accept the institutional status quo of a particular time and place as the only legitimate object of interest and yet recognizes constraints that disqualify naive Utopias. View quote
Leonid Hurwicz
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. View quote
Ignazio Silone
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. View quote
Eric Cantona
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses. View quote
Julio Cortázar