Quest For Truth Quotes

#1. Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.

Tom Clancy

#2. Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Tariq Ramadan

#3. Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.

Dave Hunt

#4. We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us.

Richard Carrier

#5. The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Hannah Arendt

#6. I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.

Brendan Gleeson

#7. Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

Douglas John Hall

#8. Sannyas is not a philosophy; it is a quest for TRUTH. It is not a way of life. It is a commitment towards a self discovered state of mind.

Harshit Walia

#9. The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Remy De Gourmont

#10. To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#12. You and I, in our quest for truth, must set ourselves on a higher level. If the worldly reasoner
is like a butcher, we wish not to be found like them - minus fingers or thumbs. Spiritual reasoning
can be a very sharp blade; it behooves us, then, to 'rightly divide'.

D.L. Herring

#13. Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

Max Heindel

#14. If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

Rene Descartes

#16. The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#17. The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Emile M. Cioran

#18. Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

Jerry A. Coyne

#19. If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H.P. Lovecraft

#20. The quest for truth by someone who isn't afraid to pursue it, no matter the cost.

Lara Adrian

#21. In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Marshall McLuhan

#22. The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality."

Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows

Grace Willows

#24. The quest for the truth, in and of itself,
Is a story that's filled with insights.

Carolyn Porco

#25. Till the time, you are enjoying the outside process, everything seems alright, but when the query arises, about why life, you search for the deeper meaning with life.

Roshan Sharma

#26. He thought that all human religion and philosophy could be reconciled. That the quest for knowledge was the highest good; and that somewhere, between all the wars and debate, there was some universal truth he could discover which would bring humanity together.

Elizabeth Hunter

#27. No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

Joe Wilson

#28. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

Douglas Adams

#29. Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Seth Godin

#30. An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart's restless quest for meaning.

Pope John Paul II

#31. The word philosophy simply means a pursuit of wisdom, the purpose of life, and a search for Truth. However, this quest, because it originates with man, can never find the answers. In fact, man cannot reach God or know God by intellectual pursuit.

Jimmy Swaggart

#32. We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#33. Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#34. Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness.

Jerry L. Ainsworth

#35. To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

Charles Colson

#36. But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Christopher Columbus

#37. When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

Alston Chase

#38. I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

Hillary Clinton

#39. In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

Sonya Hartnett

#40. In our quest for happiness many times we evade the truth and remain unhappy. The truth lies within our hearts, regarding faith, family and inner peace. To love yourself is the largest truth you'll ever have. It's there where happiness begins.

Ron Baratono

#41. he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.

Christopher Hitchens

#42. Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right ... Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

Sidney Jourard

#43. I simply find it impossible to believe that the human drama of the centuries, with its quest for meaning and beauty and truth, has no deeper root than molecular mutations.

John Piper

#44. In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

Benjamin Cardozo

#45. Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

George Lucas

#46. Let us hope for the best, let us dream and go for the quest.

Debasish Mridha

#47. Drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details

Sheridan Hay