Search Quotes
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.
Michel Foucault -
The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
Benjamin Wittes
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You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
Gautama Buddha -
We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
Blaise Pascal -
To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.
Melissa Gilbert -
So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.
Haruki Murakami -
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Eugenio Montale -
Science is far from the objective and impartial search for incontrovertible truths that nonscientists might imagine. It is, in fact, a social endeavor where dominating personalities and disciples of often defunct yet influential scholars determine what is “common knowledge.
Svante Paabo
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I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.
Ethan Peck -
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.
Marcel Proust -
She was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
Haruki Murakami -
It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.
Judith Rossner -
The second attribute of imaginatively gridlocked relationship systems is a continual search for new answers to old questions rather than an effort to reframe the questions themselves. In the search for the solution to any problem, questions are always more important than answers because the way one frames the question, or the problem, already predetermines the range of answers one can conceive in response. The critical difference between.
Edwin H. Friedman -
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
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
Elizabeth Lesser -
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
Erwin Schrodinger -
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
Bart Ehrman -
Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.
Edwin H. Friedman -
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
The search for meaning is not limited to science: it is constant and continuous--all of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no absolute boundaries separating them.
Ervin Laszlo
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Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation. Beauty, according to its critics, causes us to gape and suspend all thought.
Elaine Scarry -
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Bernard Berenson -
The playful search for beauty.
Eva Zeisel -
When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.
Raja Krishnamoorthi