#seek

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in. ↗

— Stephen Bennett

#alcoholism #appropriately #compared #encouraged #help

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#footsteps #men #old #seek #sought

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#bridge #i #i am #invisible #leans

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#existing #field #his #intellectual #knowledge

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. ↗

— Pierre Berton

#destroy #divide #enemy #freedom #head-on

I do not seek. I find. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#i #i do #seek

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#ever #help #offense #oppressed #other

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing