Quotes About Finding Out The Truth

#1. What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Clifford D. Simak

#2. Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Thucydides

#3. Torture is a good way to get people to talk but a poor method of finding out the truth; people confess whether there is any reality to the confession or not.

-Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

M T Anderson

#4. Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!

Axel

#5. Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

Tristan Wilds

#6. I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.

Katia Winter

#7. I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Winston Churchill

#8. I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes

#9. One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

Patricia Briggs

#10. All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.

Simone De Beauvoir

#11. So you don't really believe in love? I whispered. How could this be? I was crushed. It was like finding out the truth about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny in one sitting.

Robin Palmer

#12. Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Shirley Chisholm

#13. The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

Paulo Coelho

#14. I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

Amanda Schull

#15. I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. (Brewster 1860, p. 331)

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

Joyce Rachelle

#17. Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

Karen Gillan

#18. The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

John Calvin

#19. To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

Kate Forsyth

#20. An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Peter Kreeft

#21. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Criss Jami

#22. Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

Dan Millman

#23. Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

Rumi

#24. Most often life isn't what you are doing, but what is happening with you.
Life is filled with hidden joy and beauty,
but finding them is our sacred duty.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.

Anita Moorjani

#26. We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.

Bryant McGill

#27. She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. Hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields - two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Dan Brown

#29. I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

Eyvind Kang

#30. Finding what's true means letting go of the lies that control.

Emma Raveling

#31. When the media is strategically controlled by politics, finding the truth requires active searching, and many people are simply unwilling to put forth the effort to seek it out. So

Dan Wos

#32. People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

Thomas Sowell

#33. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

#34. It certainly is a puzzle." He turned back to the broken road. "But sometimes to find the answer, you have to take a leap of faith.

Dianna Hardy

#35. But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.

Francis Bacon

#36. The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Barry Long

#37. The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.

Shane McAnally

#38. More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It's usually a reunion.

Jon Acuff

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

Kamal Ravikant

#40. Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in finding it

Leo Tolstoy

#41. Libraries were a perfect illustration of human's search for truth and the frustration at never finding it.

Jonathan Ryan

#42. Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

David D. Burns

#43. Spiritually is finding the truth in you.

Wes Adamson

#44. Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.

John Hurt

#45. That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

Isabel Allende

#46. Many men never locate their own truth. They're scared to wager their glistening years finding out.

Joseph McElroy

#47. Just because you were born into something doesn't mean that it's right and it doesn't mean that it's true. The world's greatest men and women have always been those who questioned everything that ever was presented to them as truth.

Dan Pearce

#48. My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

Nikki Jean

#49. Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.

Truth Devour

#50. I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

Isaac Newton

#51. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.

D.R. Silva

#52. The truth never hurts more than finding out someone you love has lied to you.

Fiona Paul

#53. Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.

Patricia Nedelea

#54. I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#55. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.

Jennifer DeLucy

#56. I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

Nora Ephron

#57. Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention?

Edward W. Robertson

#58. Finding themselves in the truth is worth several attempts.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#59. The effort you direct at finding and developing the person you are is the key to life

Sunday Adelaja

#60. There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend

Trudi Canavan

#61. In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

#62. Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go.

Abhijit Naskar

#63. It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'
Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.

Denny Taylor

#64. If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.

Larry McMurtry

#65. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

Mary Doria Russell

#66. I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

Bell Hooks

#67. There's a big difference between trying to do something and actually doing it. We often say we're trying to do something-losing weight, getting more exercise, finding a job. But the truth is, we're either doing it or not doing it.

Tina Seelig

#68. Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

George Soros

#69. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

Debasish Mridha

#70. More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching ...

Sogyal Rinpoche

#71. Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

Laurence Overmire

#72. You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out.

Terry Pratchett

#73. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

David Levithan

#74. 'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

Jessy Schram

#75. When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Errol Morris

#76. The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

Adyashanti

#77. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#78. 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

#79. Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#80. Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing

Sunday Adelaja

#81. Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.

Auliq Ice

#82. Sometimes people don't want to look back because they are afraid of facing the truth. But sometimes, facing the truth we're afraid of is what makes us who we're really supposed to be.

Nancy J Cavanaugh

#83. We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe.

David Levithan

#84. You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

D. A. Pennebaker

#85. So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

Rene Descartes

#86. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#87. The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Alain De Botton

#88. The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

Gary Vaynerchuk