Top 1200 Search For Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

Today the search for a new global order is under way.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time.

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.

You know, search has never been a strong suit of Facebook.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.

The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultra-democracy and the laissez-faire that destroys discipline.

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

We all had to search for more words to describe things.

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

Do not search for the truth; Only cease to cherish opinions.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.