Quests Quotes - Page 5

It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

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.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.