“ If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
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“ The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
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“ Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. ”
- Marlo Thomas- Copy
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“ No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words. ”
- Prophet Mohammad- Copy
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“ I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going 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- Copy
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“ Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them…he cried, 'Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?'… God said, 'I did do something. I made you. ”
- Sufi Teaching- Copy
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“ I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be… a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist … and saint… ”
- William James- Copy
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“ In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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