When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Alan Watts

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Reinhold Niebuhr

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Rumi

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda