If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Epictetus

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise Pascal

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
Gustav Klimt

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller

I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.
Layne Staley

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Gustave Flaubert