#seeking

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ideal #positive #reality #seeking #study

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeal #discovery #good #good sense #into

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#answer #barbarity #cruelty #great #howl

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#afterwards #better #help #seeking #sins

We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#jesus #religion #seeking #the-word #inspirational

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

#am #finished #i #i am #i do

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#lost #make #seeking #shipwreck #who

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#does #forms #frieze #i #life