Quotes by Quests A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. Conrad Black queststakenwar Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom. Cornel West questsphilosophyfacts What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality. Czeslaw Milosz questsrealitythinking We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future. Daniel Dennett questsdecisionworld Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world. Dave Hunt around-the-worldatmospherequests Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody. David McCullough questsselfsometimes Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest. David Sanborn questsknowingleave-me-alone Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden. Demetri Martin questsrocksgarden To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found. Deepak Chopra questsagedoubt We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. Dora Russell questsour-worldknowledge Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death. Dorothy Norman questsheromen The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. Dwight D. Eisenhower questsprogressduty To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself. Edouard Boubat questspaintingphotography In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. Elie Wiesel beautiful-wordsquestsbeautiful You never know how a good quest is going to end. Elizabeth Gilbert questsendsinspiring The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emile M. Cioran vulgarquestsdeceived Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague? Ernest Cline pepsiquestschallenges Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means. Errol Morris queststryingmean When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power. Ezra Taft Benson questsspiritualinspirational It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing. Eve Ensler guarantees-thatinsecurequests«1234567891011»
