Top 100 Seeker Quotes
#1. Just as a man carrying on his head a load of wood that has caught fire would go rushing to a pond to quench the flames, even so will the seeker of truth, scorched by the fires of life - birth, death, self-deluding futility - go rushing to a teacher wise to the ways of the things that matter most.
Huston Smith
#2. It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.
Muhammad
#3. She was tasked with guarding the doorway to the Otherworld, keeping the balance of nature (as much as anyone could in these modern times), and occasionally, helping a worthy seeker.
Deborah Blake
#4. Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.
Douglas Brinkley
#5. Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Marlo Thomas
#6. Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.
Matisyahu
#7. The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.
Arthur W. Pink
#9. The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
Adyashanti
#10. No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year
ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge
and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#12. The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Paul Watzlawick
#13. But be warned, oh seeker of knowledge, of the thicket of opinions and of arguing about words.
Hermann Hesse
#14. In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.
John Masefield
#15. A true Seeker of Love Should find a good Keeper'
The man Seeks and woman Keeps
Bello Ahmd
#16. Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
Hunter S. Thompson
#17. I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
Lydia Lunch
#18. If he said anything to me, I would gather the sentences like a shell seeker.
David Levithan
#19. I am a 'Light' seeker with a 'tude'!."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#20. While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.
Tarun J. Tejpal
#21. I am ready for love, but I am not a seeker of it. My truth is; the more I love who I am, the more I will attract my perfect mirror of love to meet me halfway.
Nikki Rowe
#22. The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
Ramana Maharshi
#23. Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low.
Robert A. Johnson
#25. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
Steve Irwin
#26. I, Professor S. Snape, give the Slytherin team permission to practice today on the Quidditch field owing to the need to train their new Seeker.
J.K. Rowling
#27. I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.
Muhammad Yunus
#28. I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.
Karan Bajaj
#29. It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
Vernon Howard
#30. I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.
Danielle LaPorte
#31. The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
#32. I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.
Tanc Sade
#33. I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.
Cynthia Kenyon
#34. Mary Lou: Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth?
a beat.
Newt: I'm more of a chaser, really.
J.K. Rowling
#35. You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#36. The seeker for perfection must discover in his own life the reflection of the inner light.
Okakura Kakuzo
#37. To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.
H.L. Mencken
#38. I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.
Lucy Lawless
#39. Be a truth seeker. Go after it with all your might. Let it seep deep into the marrow of your soul. For it will be the only thing to save you in the end. No savior, no religion, no teacher, no guru can do that. You must do it. It is a lifelong pursuit while on this earth.
Dara Reidyr
#40. O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.
Rumi
#41. When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
Aberjhani
#42. Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse."
"Clarisse?"
"Sibling of yours," Hedge said. "Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.
Rick Riordan
#43. I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#44. Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.
Albert Einstein
#45. Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death!
Varric Tethras
#46. Turn away from the ugliness and reunite with beauty. You have to want the beauty of life really bad, and you have to take action and look for it. You have to become a beauty seeker.
Bryant McGill
#47. The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#48. The intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.
Josef Pieper
#49. Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.
Lee Lozowick
#50. Seeker Of Truth
seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here
E. E. Cummings
#51. I want to observe the ordinary things of earth - the moon, the stars, the rainbows, even the yellow leaves of the old cherry trees - and receive their messages. To hear them say what every weary traveler, every earnest seeker, longs to hear. Welcome home.
Christie Purifoy
#52. Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently.
Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
Silence awakens the sleeping seeker in me.
Silence enlightens the aspiring seeker in me.
Silence fulfills the self-giving seeker in me.
Sri Chinmoy
#53. The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
Baha'u'llah
#54. A true Seeker, one who can make a difference, must show himself to be a Seeker. The wizard doesn't point to someone and say, 'Here is the Sword of Truth, you will be the Seeker.' He doesn't really have a choice in the matter.
Terry Goodkind
#55. The Seeker's host body was named Lacey; a dainty, soft, feminine name. Lacey. As inappropriate as the size, in my opinion. Like naming a pit bull Fluffy.
Stephenie Meyer
#56. Embrace thy need for truth. Be your own seeker. Lie to others if you must but never to yourself.
Truth Devour
#57. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Hermann Hesse
#59. It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one ... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.
Mahmud Shabistari
#61. The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
Joseph Goebbels
#62. Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#63. I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.
Marie Osmond
#64. As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
Robert Breault
#65. I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. All iron comes from stars," Seeker replied, her hand still not quite brushing the hilt of the blade. "It's the last element they can burn before they go nova. Iron's the skeletons of stars, and it's what makes our blood red. I
Elizabeth Bear
#68. The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.
Rumi
#69. I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
Walter Isaacson
#70. I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#71. Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the Hufflepuff House Quidditch team at Hogwarts.
J.K. Rowling
#72. There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
Sri Chinmoy
#73. Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
Dogen
#74. As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Annie Dillard
#75. Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.
Clement Greenberg
#76. Such grave uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is also the obscure country where it must seek and where all its baggage will be nothing to it.
Marcel Proust
#77. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#78. The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Muhammad Iqbal
#79. To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
Saib Tabrizi
#80. Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.
Sri Chinmoy
#81. The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Paul Watzlawick
#82. Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
Berton Braley
#83. An invitation is extended to any true seeker who wants to find for himself the Light and Sound of God. This treasure is the birthright of Soul that leads to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Harold Klemp
#84. How can one know who his spiritual teacher is? ... His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker.
Sri Chinmoy
#85. A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#86. The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
Chris Cleave
#87. Before me now there is only one real fact
Death. The truth I have been seeking
this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So
we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.
Bruce Lee
#88. For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
Bayazid Bastami
#90. These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports ... they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them ... that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#91. If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.
Jaggi Vasudev
#92. The True Seeker must, before all else, cleanse his heart ...
Baha'u'llah
#93. The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
Ramana Maharshi
#94. No, a true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, to every goal; nothing separated him from all the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine.
Hermann Hesse
#95. We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#96. When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.
Alexander Ludwig
#97. The Bible is the great treasure for the curious sinner, fresh water for thirsty painting soul, the revealed truth for the true seeker or worship per,the unrevealed truth for the wrong seekers, a guide to the blind and eternal food for the hungry soul.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#98. For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.
Samuel Beckett
#99. The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.
Jane Smiley
