Top 100 Discover Truth Quotes
#1. The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
Carl Sagan
#2. The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.
Joyce Meyer
#3. In order to discover truth it is necessary to coldly dissect and examine all of our prejudices and inherent biases to ensure we receive unbiased answers. This takes effort. It is always easier to simply accept the ideas presented to us than to question the status quo.
Stephen McAndrew
#5. It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.
Kahlil Gibran
#6. We rarely read the Bible to discover truth; more often, we wish to harmonize it with our belief system and see its meaning in light of our preconceived theological system
Anonymous
#7. One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
#9. The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?
Brenda Ueland
#10. The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.
Henry Steele Commager
#11. I'd like to discover Truth - when I can latch on to something that I think is true.
Edgar Mitchell
#12. The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.
Rollo May
#13. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
Baron D'Holbach
#14. I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
Jane Fonda
#15. In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.
Max Muller
#16. How can I discover truth I thought and that thought led me nowhere. No one would tell me the truth.
Jean Rhys
#17. Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We are expected to ponder, to search, to evaluate, and thereby to come to a personal knowledge of the truth.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#18. The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
Saul Bellow
#19. The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.
Sara Rue
#20. It is light that cheers us when we are downhearted, it is light that brings us solace out of suffering, it is light that beams upon us when we discover some new hidden truth of the universe - it is light that first greets us when we emerge into this world.
Eric P. Kelly
#21. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf
#22. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
Gautama Buddha
#23. Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it.
Rob Bell
#24. As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.
Susan Jeffers
#25. Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold
Charlene Costanzo
#26. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.
John Piper
#27. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
Bill Watterson
#28. If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.
Spencer W. Kimball
#29. Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
Barry Long
#30. It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#31. By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self discovery.
Muata Ashby
#32. I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
Burt Glinn
#33. I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
Jay Parini
#34. It was like working in a dark cave with the aid of a single candle. Just when you thought you had spotted the white light of Truth, you would chase it, only to discover that it was someone else, also holding a candle, also looking for the light. A
Thomas L. Friedman
#35. You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.
Iris Murdoch
#36. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).
Victoria Schwab
#37. Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.
Lord Chesterfield
#38. The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.
Plato
#39. It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
Hosea Ballou
#40. If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare
Jeffrey Overstreet
#41. I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
Edward St. Aubyn
#42. The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
Blaise Pascal
#43. Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence.
Alija Izetbegovic
#44. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
#45. Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth
Benjamin D. Wiker
#46. He had been guilty once or twice of believing he understood, only to discover he did not ... There were times, he saw, when not knowing was the biggest truth, and you had to stay with that.
Rachel Joyce
#47. There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip.
Kamal Ravikant
#48. Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#49. To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.
A.H. Septimius
#50. I am inviting you to discover that deeper than any pattern, deeper than personality, deeper than success or failure, deeper than worth or worthlessness, there is a radiance that is undeniable, always present - the truth of who you are.
Gangaji
#51. You want to know everything? Look at yourself. You discover a truth and can barely function.
Anya Allyn
#52. There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
Joseph Addison
#53. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#54. Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
Niels Bohr
#55. Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.
Richard Lederer
#57. I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
Eamonn Walker
#58. There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.
Rhonda Byrne
#59. The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate
Samuel Johnson
#60. Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
C.S. Lewis
#61. ... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves.
John Yorke
#62. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself. And
C.S. Lewis
#63. For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.
Augustine Of Hippo
#64. I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself. If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit. I think what we should do is throw ourselves out of ourselves. The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside.
Slavoj Zizek
#66. Nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#67. Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
Abhijit Naskar
#68. For one thing, everyone would insist that assumptions be stated explicitly and tested rigorously not as a stalling tactic or a form of make-work but out of a genuine desire to discover the truth that underlies every project's vision.
Eric Ries
#69. To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
Leonard Cohen
#70. Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." - Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons
#71. In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides, rather than unites, humanity.
Jason E. Marshall
#72. The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history ... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Rachel Carson
#73. The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.
Gangaji
#74. [Rangers] discover the truth though it is surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Ysbeau Wilace
#75. When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.
Megan Hart
#76. The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
Austin O'Malley
#77. To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.
Virginia Woolf
#78. I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.
Robin Hobb
#79. People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#80. We want to discover who we are without the burden of sight. It's easy to believe we are the same inside because we look so similar. Sanna says only in the dark can we know the truth, but I'm not so sure. Darkness conceals.
Sara Grant
#81. It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
#82. It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
Richard Morris
#83. If you would discover the supreme happiness of truth, you must break away from all ceremonies and ideological patterns.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#84. Polarity exists so that we may discover the truth beyond this world of duality, which is the ultimate purpose of life.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#85. As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.
Juan Goytisolo
#86. As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
Ernst Toller
#87. What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus
#88. Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.
Shunryu Suzuki
#89. I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.
William Shatner
#90. Until we begin to discover and create value, purposefully and systemically, we are not humans but only biomass
Sunday Adelaja
#91. [I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
Democritus
#92. Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth.
Karen White
#93. The key to your success in this world is to discover the field of your gifts
Sunday Adelaja
#94. True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Umberto Eco
#95. The first step toward finding God
who is truth
is to discover the truth about myself; and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error
Thomas Merton
#96. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.
Alan Sokal
#97. I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Baron De Montesquieu
#98. Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
Immanuel Kant
#99. Religion is to follow someone else's word as truth; whereas Spirituality is to discover your own truth through inquiry, experimentation and experience.
Yogi Kanna
#100. Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
Blaise Pascal
