Discovering Truth Quotes

#1. The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words - are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Neal Stephenson

#5. Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

Mooji

#6. Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

Ken Wilber

#7. Not by discovering new wow things you are able to understand the truth about nature, but by changing the very fundamental way of perceiving anything you've ever seen in daily life.

Toba Beta

#8. You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

Frederick Buechner

#9. All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

#10. Discovering life in oneself is to become all you can be

Sunday Adelaja

#11. It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth for me, of finding the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

Pope Leo I

#13. Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

Robert V. Taylor

#14. The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Thomas Paine

#15. Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Repentance is the process of discovering what God says is the truth and aligning your faith with His.

Phil Drysdale

#17. Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#18. For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

Jonathan Edwards

#20. The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it.

Irwin Kula

#21. When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely ... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

Guy Finley

#22. The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension.

Paul Halmos

#23. To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

Gao Xingjian

#24. I was discovering a hard truth: There's no way to catch up on sleep. When it's gone, it's gone, and the best you can hope for is to have better luck next time.

David Van Etten

#25. No good coming from the truth? Knowing the truth is always good. And better that it's us discovering it than someone else, right?

Hugh Howey

#26. Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Charles Baudelaire

#27. I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

Victor Garber

#28. You aren't happy," Estela says.
"I can't be happy," I say.
"Look at me, Kenzie."
"I'm looking at you, Estela."
"Do you know your own heart?"
"I don't know anything."
"Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.

Beth Kephart

#29. God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important

Sunday Adelaja

#30. Some people need to be in the presence of truth, I think, others beauty, and we were each discovering on which side the other one fell.

Ruth Curry

#31. The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#32. I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the truth ; that, being so short-sighted, they do not reach beyond the heavens and the stars, to contemplate God Himself.

Jean De La Bruyere

#33. Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

#34. We spend our lives asking the question, 'What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?' But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#35. The brilliancy of Aristotle's genius is shown by this alone, that he discovered, in the expression of the value of commodities, a relation of equality. The peculiar conditions of the society in which he lived, alone prevented him from discovering what, "in truth," was at the bottom of this equality.

Karl Marx

#36. When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#37. When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.

Bertrand Russell

#38. I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this?

Kamand Kojouri

#39. Your truth: No one knows it better than you. But never be discourage in seeking others in discovering your deeper truth.

C.C. Wyatt