Search For Truth Quotes

• We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Nature, Science, Deception

  1789 Traiteele mentaire de la chimie ('Elements of Chemistr y', translated by Robert Kerr).

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• We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Should, Hesitation

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.79, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Mean, Helping

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.37

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• As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Science, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Truth, Want, Firsts

  Bart D. Ehrman (2011). “Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The search for truth begins in your heart.

  Rickson Gracie

  Heart, Truth Is

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• The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Duty

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• A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Hate, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Satyagraha

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• Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Vision, Sincere

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.317, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Discovery, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth, Curiosity, Precious Possessions

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• The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

  Karl Jaspers

  Wise, Philosophy, Mean

  "Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1951.

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• Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in the search for truth. We can seek truth without wonder's assistance. But seek is all we'll do; there will be no finding. Unless wonder descends, unlocks us ... truth is unable to enter. Wonder may be the aura of truth, the halo of it. Or something even closer. Wonder may be the caress of truth, touching our very skin.

  David James Duncan

  Grace, Touching, Skins

  David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press

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• In order to be truthful
  We must do more than speak the truth.
  We must also hear truth.
  We must also receive truth.
  We must also act upon truth.
  We must also search for truth.
  The difficult truth
  Within us and around us.
  We must devote ourselves to truth.
  Otherwise we are dishonest
  And our lives are mistaken.
  God grant us the strength and the courage
  To be truthful.
  Amen

  Michael Leunig

  Honesty, Order, Truthful

  Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.55, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Games, Trying

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• The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

  Vernon Howard

  Truth, Fun, Truth Is

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• We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Rewards, Creeds, Seeking

  H. Emilie Cady (2016). “LESSONS IN TRUTH - A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity: How to Enhance Your Confidence and Your Inner Power & How to Improve Your Spiritual Development”, p.6, e-artnow

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• If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

  Morris West

  Truth, Men, Divine

  "The Heretic". Play by Morris West, 1968.

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• Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

  Dominique de Menil

  Inspirational, Principles, Unifying

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• Science is the search for truth.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Rejection, Skepticism

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• As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

  Mooji

  Thinking, Grace, Garbage

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• But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Discovery, Abandoned, Made

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• The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Imagination, Obstacles, Conformity

  "On Responsibility, War Guilt and Intellectuals". Interview with Gabriel Matthew Schivone, chomsky.info. August 3, 2007.

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• Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Thinking, Challenges

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