He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form. . . one inevitably ends up with an egg.
He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles. . . How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.
God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.
He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.