Search Proverbs

Search Quotes & Sayings

The fun is in the search, not the finding. ~ German proverb

They know not their own defects who search for the defects of others. ~ Sanskrit Proverb

There are two kinds of men: those who could be happy and are not, and those who search for happiness and find it not. ~ Arabian Proverb

Search knowledge though it be in China. ~ Arabian Proverb

He who searches for pearls should not sleep. ~ Lybian proverb

He need not search his pockets for words. ~ Russian Proverb

Be on a horse when you go in search of a better one. ~ Chinese Proverb

Quotations about Searching

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. ~ Chick Corea

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning. ~ Doug Horton

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. ~ E. L. Konigsburg

Search not to find things too deeply hid; nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid. ~ Sir John Denham

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. ~ William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

The seeking is the goal and the search is the answer. ~ Author unknown

Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals. ~ Marc Ostrofsky

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it. ~ Russel H. Conwell

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. ~ Charles Bradlaugh

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength. ~ Apocrypha

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms. ~ Joshua Cohen

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. ~ Blaise Pascal

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. ~ Jesus Christ

When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways? ~ Christina Baker Kline

The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search. ~ Nathaniel Branden (Canadian-born American psychologist, author, expert on self-esteem)

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. ~ Heraclitus

We may define therapy as a search for value. ~ Abraham Maslow

Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. ~ Marc Ostrofsky

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ~ Chevy Chase

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it. ~ James Gleick

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. ~ Erich Fromm

Truth hurts – not the searching after; the running from ~ John Eyberg

He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow. ~ Author Unknown

The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that. ~ Jack Dorsey

Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories? ~ Maureen Dowd

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~ Eric Hoffer

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

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. ~ Peter F. Drucker

I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine. ~ Garrett Camp

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history. ~ Franklin Foer

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellence. ~ Marcus T. Cicero

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine. ~ Sergey Brin

Man - a being in search of meaning. ~ Plato

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth ~ Albert Einstein

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that. ~ Larry Page

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. ~ George Moore

Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

He who would search for pearls must dive below. ~ John Drydens

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. ~ Kenneth Kaunda

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. ~ Eric Schmidt

The search for someone to blame is always successful. ~ Robert Half

Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned. ~ Derek Sivers

The noblest search is the search for excellence. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait. ~ George Harrison

f you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine. ~ Garrett Camp

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. ~ Nikolaus Lenus

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. ~ Marcus T. Cicero

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way. ~ Trent Reznor

Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs. ~ Barton Gellman

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them. ~ Peter Thiel

I am searching for that which every man seeks -- peace and rest. ~ Dante Alighieri

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. ~ Mitch Kapor

Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads. ~ Douglas Rushkoff

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. ~ Wilbur J. Chapman

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~ Bertrand Russell

The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated. ~ David Sze

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. ~ Lisa Alther

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures. ~ Temple Grandin

Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising. ~ Marc Ostrofsky

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine. ~ Sergey Brin

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge ~ Robert Lynd

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. ~ William Least Heat-Moon

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. ~ Bernard Berenson

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~ Albert Camus

The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick. ~ Barton Gellman

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. ~ Ethan Zuckerman

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation. ~ Sergey Brin

Reputations are made by searching for things that can’t be done and doing them ~ Frank Tyger

Web Search Engine Research. ~ Book preview