Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.
Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
View quotes by Rudyard Kipling
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
View quotes by Cicero
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
View quotes by Clarence Darrow
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
View quotes by Carl Sagan
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
View quotes by J P Getty
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
View quotes by André Gide
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
View quotes by Orison Swett Marden
What I'm doing here is seeking to offer protection from life, solely through the means of potato, butter and cream... there are times when only mashed potato will do.
View quotes by Nigella Lawson
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
View quotes by David Riesman
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
View quotes by Franklin D Roosevelt
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
View quotes by Graham Greene
In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.
View quotes by Henry Ford II
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
View quotes by Marcel Proust
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then ‘process’
View quotes by Edward De Bono
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature
View quotes by Richard Dawkins
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
View quotes by Max Planck
Over the past 18 months I've been coming to terms with and seeking to cope with a drink problem, and I've come to learn through that process that a drink problem is a serious problem indeed.
View quotes by Charles Kennedy
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other
View quotes by Suzanne Curchod Necker
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
View quotes by Alvin Adams
View Results: page 1 2
Buy Fantastic Items at Amazon:
Choose Another Keyword