Top 100 The Search Quotes
#1. Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.
Eric Schmidt
#2. The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#3. The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach,
Rob Bell
#4. Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Together with this outrage we may take the mutilation of the novel called The Search at the exact point where the author upholds, or appears for the moment to uphold, the doctrine that loyalty to the abstract truth must override all personal considerations;
Dorothy L. Sayers
#6. The two of them, father and son, lived like roommates, stumbling upon each other in their matching peacock robes, bitching over who used up the coffee, but by afternoon they drifted in the pool together, bumping the sides, compatriots in the search for a little passion on earth. They
Jeffrey Eugenides
#7. Aoun wrote of the search for 'that good physician who would say, 'I understand that this illness is happening to you, but we will face it together.
Pauline W. Chen
#8. If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.
Jim Woodring
#9. That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.
Stephen Cambone
#10. The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.
Robert Reynolds
#11. Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#12. He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.
Peter Jackson
#13. I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
Ansel Adams
#14. The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#15. Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it ... a contented spirit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#16. Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
Jackson Browne
#17. The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.
Paulo Coelho
#18. One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them.
John Silber
#19. The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
Joshua Cohen
#20. Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.
Hans Arp
#21. In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
Warren Buffett
#22. In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS.
Peter Radetsky
#23. The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. The world is changing, and will continue to do so. But that does not mean we should stop the search for timeless principles.
James C. Collins
#25. The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#26. The medium is the message because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
Marshall McLuhan
#27. I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.
Keren Ann
#28. O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely - "il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien" - I wager he finds nothing!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. When you search for the truth, you begin to believe in the search and lose sight of the truth.
Chloe Thurlow
#30. True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.
Asger Jorn
#31. Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
John Berger
#33. The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.
Paulo Coelho
#34. The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.
Eric Chaisson
#35. The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
Roman Jakobson
#36. Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
Ben Nicholson
#37. If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end,
The future might stop emerging out of the past,
Out of what is full of us; yet the search
And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
Wallace Stevens
#38. It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
Ricky Williams
#39. The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
Giles Foden
#41. When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell
#42. We sin from a place of emptiness. We sin from a place of wanting to be filled up. The search for meaning drives many of our decisions, and ultimately it's the driving factor in our search for breathing room.
Josh Reich
#43. Before long, Maxine finds herself wandering around clicking on everything, faces, litter on the floor, labels on bottles behind the bar, after a while interested not so much in where she might get to than the texture of the search itself.
Thomas Pynchon
#44. God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
Donald Knuth
#45. Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
Fran Lebowitz
#46. The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power.
Robert D. Kaplan
#47. Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.
Wynn Bullock
#49. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
#50. True success is there when a person has the ability to lose himself or herself in the search of knowledge and wisdom by using love, joy, and gratitude. On the other hand, societal success comes from the progressive realizations of worthy goals.
Debasish Mridha
#51. The search "Who am I" ... ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.
Ramana Maharshi
#52. There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
Janet Asimov
#53. When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
Louis Pasteur
#54. I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
Alfred Stieglitz
#55. As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
Albert Einstein
#56. So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
Thucydides
#57. I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One
word. Necromancer.
Kelley Armstrong
#58. I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
Marguerite Young
#59. Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.
Lillian B. Rubin
#60. The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.
Paulo Coelho
#61. This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
Aristide Briand
#62. We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!
Billy Graham
#63. Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
Jeremy Paxman
#64. SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them ... so hard they f***ing bleed
David Naylor
#65. The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for the Lord within is the effort to find those places in the substance of the soul where God's mercy and human misery touch each other, where one has bearing on the other.
Anthony Lilles
#66. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Walker Percy
#67. Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
Aldo Leopold
#68. The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
Bart D. Ehrman
#69. The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.
Kate Williams
#70. Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
Idries Shah
#71. The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.
Daniel Amen
#72. The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
Francis Bacon
#73. There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.
Martin E. Marty
#74. But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#75. If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
Walter Lang
#76. Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
Eric Schmidt
#78. The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
Ernest Dimnet
#79. One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Alfred Nobel
#80. Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over.
Noah Hawley
#81. I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.
Maya Forbes
#82. The term "exobiology," sometimes interchanged with astrobiology, is actually much more specific - it covers the search for life beyond Earth and the effects of extraterrestrial environments on living things. Today, it is considered a subdiscipline within astrobiology.
Cris Putnam
#83. The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts, ...
Pope Francis
#84. Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search
Prince
#85. We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.
Gregory J.E. Rawlins
#86. So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
Aristotle.
#87. Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Linus Pauling
#88. Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
Arthur C. Clarke
#89. Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.
Masha Gessen
#90. A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
Melinda Gates
#91. Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
Leo Tolstoy
#92. Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
E.L. Konigsburg
#93. The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
Jonah Goldberg
#94. The search for perfection is all good and well ...
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell.
Sting
#95. The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
Alfred Loisy
#96. This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. Stability of heart - commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God - is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When
Joan D. Chittister
#98. The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'
Brendan Myers
#99. Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
Paulo Coelho
#100. I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.
Walter Isaacson
