It’s basically murder triage. I search for situations where the danger of losing another life is generally inescapable.

I think the most important thing in life is happiness. I respect people’s opinions, but I’m in search of happiness.

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

There’s more skill in becoming something else, something great. Opportunities rarely present themselves. You have to search for challenges.

The best men are always first discovered by their enemies: it is the adversary who turns on the searchlight, and the proof of excellence lies in being able to stand the gleam.

Money won’t buy you happiness, but it’ll pay for the search.

Our Lord unlocked my mind, sent me upon the sea, and gave me fire for the deed

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

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

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

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

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

To recognize this unity of form and matter in all things, is what reason is striving to attain to. But in order to penetrate to this unity, in order to investigate all the secrets of Nature, we must search into the opposed and contradictory extremes of things, the maximum and the minimum.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . . A new Hedonism — that is what our century wants. You might be its visible symbol

They who search after the Philosopher’s Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

Search others for their virtues, yourself for your vices.