Quest Quotes

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. View quote
Norman Cousins
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world. View quote
Arthur Eddington
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. View quote
Remy de Gourmont
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force ... is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. View quote
Graham Hancock
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. View quote
Paulo Coelho
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. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. View quote
Warren Weaver
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning” of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a symbolic representation of the development of the animus toward consciousness. Often the heroine may ask no questions of her mysterious lover, or she is only allowed to meet him in darkness. She is to save him through her blind faith and love, but this never works. She always breaks her promise and is only able to find her beloved again after a long quest. (Marie-Louise von Franz)
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
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. View quote
Branford Marsalis
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. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front. View quote
Charlie Sheen
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities - his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary. View quote
William James
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack. View quote
Ayn Rand
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. (H. P. Lovecraft)
Christ said, "The Truth shall make you free," but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal. View quote
Max Heindel
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours. View quote
Anne Rice
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan