Seekers Quotes - Page 6

• That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

  Sally Quinn

  Decided

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Entrepreneur, Charity, Aids

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Spirit, Remember, Willing

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• I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  People, Upset, Trying

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Thank you, restlessness, as challenging a traveling companion as there could be. In the end, my embrace of you was what sent me on the only search that really counts. Responding to you was the stirring that led me to sit every morning and to venture into that invisible terrain where seeker and sought merge and rest together, once and for all eternity.

  Rod Stryker

  Morning, Challenges, Together

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• I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

  Pat Conroy

  Knowing Nothing, Bottles, Passionate

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

  Shane Claiborne

  Church, Flags, Wonder

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.193, Harper Collins

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• I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Eye, Moon

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• 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

  Stars, Book, Teaching

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Goal, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.

  Terry Goodkind

  Children, Fighting, Hands

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.185, Head of Zeus

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• A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

  Robertson Davies

  Boys, Men, Self

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

  H. L. Mencken

  World, Littles, Truth Seekers

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• The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Suicide, Differences, Counterparts

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• We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

  Phil Cousineau

  Home, Heart, Climate

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• Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Dream, Character, Frustrated

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Art of Life”, p.1992, John Wiley & Sons

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• In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Successful, Victory

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.

  Hank Williams III

  Names, Curiosity, Rowdy

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• I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Real, Educational

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• There's a seeker born every minute.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Born, Minutes

  Robert Anton Wilson (1995). “Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death”, New Falcon Publications

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• Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Taken, Mean

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• Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

  Aldous Huxley

  Determination, Bored, Majority

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stories

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories”, p.225, First Avenue Editions

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• 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

  Knowing, Soul, Want

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

  John C. Danforth

  Humility, Should, Said

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 17, September 19, 2006.

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