Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.