Discovery Of Truth Quotes

#1. The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China's Confucian society, the best pathway to perfection was the development of a virtuous life.

Patrick Mendis

#2. In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Simon Greenleaf

#3. For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed by His Spirit, is a high provocation of him; nor shall I expect the discovery of truth from any one who thus proudly engages in a work so much beyond his ability.

John Owen

#4. Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

Edgar Quinet

#5. TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.

John Henry Wigmore

#7. Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.

Jules Verne

#8. The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Auliq Ice

#10. Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

John Henry Wigmore

#12. Without free speech no search for truth is possible ... no discovery of truth is useful ... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Charles Bradlaugh

#13. The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.
Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Aldous Huxley

#15. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. The key to your success in this world is to discover the field of your gifts

Sunday Adelaja

#17. I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

Thomas A. Edison

#18. At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

John Charles Polanyi

#19. The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.

Charles Duhigg

#20. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Charlotte Eriksson

#21. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God ...

John Locke

#22. After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

Zeena Schreck

#23. I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

Charles Darwin

#24. There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me , in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.

J.I. Packer

#25. Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible "treasure by the way of concentration

Sunday Adelaja

#26. The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#27. Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

Rene Descartes

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

Adrien-Marie Legendre

#29. 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

#30. I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

Huston Smith

#31. We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

Bryant McGill

#32. If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

Martha Beck

#33. People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Druyan

#34. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Barry Long

#35. He who discovers the light, discovers life.
He who discovers the dark, discovers death,
Neither are wrong and neither are right; your perception is what will guide your path. Our minds are our tools, our hearts our truth and our instinct our guidance, don't let them fool you.

Nikki Rowe

#36. On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge - an undeniable force.

T.F. Hodge

#37. Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Criss Jami

#38. The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.

Joseph Fort Newton

#39. Be weary of the selfish givers, those who do something for a hidden fee.

Nikki Rowe

#40. The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty ... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation ... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad ... Truth matters because of beauty.

Alfred North Whitehead

#41. I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#42. You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.

Elizabeth Naramore

#43. Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

Sydney J. Harris

#44. It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

C. JoyBell C.

#45. The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.

Kamal Ravikant

#46. It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Huxley

#47. One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

John Piper

#48. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.

Tanveer Naseer

#49. In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

Mary Baker Eddy

#50. That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them; and since the embodiment came before the recognition of the truth, it seemed a discovery that belonged to them alone.

John Edward Williams

#51. It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

#52. Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#53. Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#54. She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.

Rona Jaffe

#55. As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day Jr.

#56. Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.

William Stanley Jevons

#57. As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

Sara Sheridan

#58. 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

#59. I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth.

Nikki Rowe

#60. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Bryant McGill

#61. Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. To be enveloped in the pure atmosphere of divine love is to be created by God

Sunday Adelaja

#63. It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Charles Caleb Colton

#64. Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

Alice Miller

#65. It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.

Matthew Kelly

#66. 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

#67. One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

Henry Fox Talbot

#68. Heavenly realities are found in the presence of God

Sunday Adelaja

#69. Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Oliver Tambo

#70. Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

Edward Everett

#71. 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

#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. Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n

Nikki Rowe

#74. There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

E'yen A. Gardner

#75. Librarians...put their hearts and minds into preserving knowledge and making it available to all. They help to keep the wheels of truth, discovery and imagination turning." - L.J.M. Owen

L.J.M. Owen

#76. The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Bertrand Russell

#77. The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

Kamal Ravikant