Top 96 He Who Seeks Quotes
#1. Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.
Walter Benjamin
#2. He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.
Walter Russell
#3. He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
Plautus
#4. He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
David Hilbert
#5. He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#6. Weber warns that "he who seeks the salvation of the soul, his own soul and others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#7. He who seeks truth should be of no country.
Voltaire
#8. He who seeks revenge should dig two graves.
Mick Haines
#10. The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.
William Gilmore Simms
#11. For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened. LUKE 11:10
Joyce Meyer
#13. There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc ... he who seeks for guidance ... may look inside its covers & find illumination
Herbert Hoover
#14. Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#15. He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas
#18. He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Franz Kafka
#19. Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#20. He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.
Mia Couto
#21. He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.
Luc De Clapiers
#23. He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
George MacDonald
#24. I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
George Bernard Shaw
#25. He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Baruch Spinoza
#27. am that Messenger whom men from the beginning have called Kepher," he said. "I am the Dweller in the wilderness whom your fathers knew, and your sons shall know. I am he who seeks for charity and pays it back in
H. Rider Haggard
#28. ... he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#30. He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in,
Nick Cave
#32. He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#33. Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
Benjamin Franklin
#35. He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is wrong: so say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
Kahlil Gibran
#37. The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#38. He who seeks beauty will eventually find it, and discover that the Persians are not entirely deceived in their Hafiz, nor the Hindoos in their Kalidasa.
Friedrich Max Muller
#39. He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
Seneca The Younger
#40. There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
Epes Sargent
#41. A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
Wassily Kandinsky
#42. The Father isn't seeking people to come and worship him who like a particular aesthetic style; he isn't seeking people to worship him who can sing well. The Father seeks people to worship him "in spirit and truth." Worship must be the way God wants, not the way I want.
Justin Imel
#43. I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Felix Adler
#46. The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#48. For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#49. The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
Giacomo Casanova
#50. In dancing the Alman the young men sometimes steal the damsels from their partners and he who has been robbed seeks to obtain another damsel. But I do not hold with this behaviour because it may lead to quarrels and heart burning.
Thoinot Arbeau
#51. I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#52. Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;
While he who walks in love may wander far,
Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
Henry Van Dyke
#53. Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
Edith Stein
#54. He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Sallust
#55. Respect is a thing earned, not bought, and a man who lets it be known that he seeks respect will probably never see it bestowed.
Brett J. Talley
#56. He that attends to his interior self,
That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,
Has business.
William Cowper
#57. Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
Vaclav Havel
#58. Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings, who tries his strength the instant he has put a man and a woman face to face?
Guy De Maupassant
#59. God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#60. In order to encourage us to have confidence and trust He comes near us by His holy Word and Spirit, and seeks in a thousand ways to win our confidence. But in nothing does He take more delight than in receiving the weak who come to Him for strength.
Ellen G. White
#62. I have written the little work that follows ... in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#63. The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good. To die performing duty is no ill; But who seeks other roads shall wander still.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
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John Bunyan
#66. He who wants to recognize what is alive and describe it, seeks first to drive the spirit out of it. Then, he holds the parts in his hands. But missing is the spirit's band.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#67. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,
Timothy Keller
#68. He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.
Laozi
#69. To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
Sophocles
#70. All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.
Samuel Johnson
#72. Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children
that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
David Lloyd George
#73. Someone who seeks nothing but his own fate no longer has any companions, he stands quite alone and has only cold, universal space around him.
Hermann Hesse
#75. He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Johann Most
#76. The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
Chidananda Saraswati
#77. Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!
William Beckford
#78. Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering.
-Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#79. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#80. In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.
Greg Mortenson
#81. It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.
Ignatius Bryanchaninov
#82. He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
Voltaire
#83. He who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks) from day to day to diminish (his doing).
Lao-Tzu
#84. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu
#85. Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.
Carl Joachim Friedrich
#86. He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#88. To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
Blaise Pascal
#89. Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. (Prov. 17:9)
Scotty Smith
#90. He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man ... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#91. Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
Victor Hugo
#92. temperament. I am not the foolish little girl who seeks trouble anymore. Ye can trust me not to be reckless, but I will fight for our people if need be." Duncan pulled her into a fierce embrace. "I worry for ye, lass," he whispered. "Ye should be thinking of marriage and a family, not climbing cliff
Lily Baldwin
#93. I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.
Jon Favreau
#94. The cunning waste their pains;
The wise men vex their brains;
But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,
With belly full, he wanders free
As drifting boat upon the sea.
Cao Xueqin
#95. This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;
The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;
Cristiane Serruya
#96. J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
Hannah Storm
