Quests quotes
221 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life."
"The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being."
"The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing"
"Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical."
"To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous."
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"Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest."
"It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable"
"Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?"
"The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others."
"Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else."
"In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word."
"The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope."
"Each minute of life should be a divine quest."
"They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind."
"Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one."
"The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit."
"Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom."
"Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge."
"By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life."
"Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden."
"The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility."
"The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth."
"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."
"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."
"I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence."
