The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

- Alfred de Vigny

I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

- Alexander Chee

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

- Antonio Tabucchi

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

- Anthony Kennedy

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

- Anne Parillaud

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

- Andrew Wyeth

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

- Andrew Ross Sorkin

I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks, but it is hard because I didn't know anyone in this industry, so I started as an extra and fought.

- Amber Heard

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

- Ashton Kutcher

We may define therapy as a search for value.

- Abraham Maslow

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

- Arnold Palmer

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

- Antonin Scalia

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

- Annie Dillard

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

- Andrea Bocelli

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

- Alice Walker

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

- Alfred Nobel

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

- Alan Dershowitz

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

- Al Gore