Quotes About Finding The Truth

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

George Soros

#2. 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

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

Errol Morris

#4. 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

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

Rumi

#6. 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

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

Karen Gillan

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Spiritually is finding the truth in you.

Wes Adamson

#11. If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.

Ayya Khema

#12. I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

Ray Dalio

#13. Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

Paul Copan

#14. It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

Sunny-Drunk

#15. The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

Shuler Hensley

#16. Politics and self-interest should never stand in the way of finding the truth.

Charles F. Glassman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Larry McMurtry

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
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Trudi Canavan

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Juan Pablo Di Pace

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

Fiona Paul

#34. 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

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

Gary Vaynerchuk

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

Sogyal Rinpoche

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Emma Raveling

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

Eyvind Kang

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

Dan Brown

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Shirley Chisholm

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

Dan Millman

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

Peter Kreeft

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Joyce Rachelle

#61. 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

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

Amanda Schull

#63. 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

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

Truth Devour

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

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

Jonathan Ryan

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

Leo Tolstoy

#72. 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

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

Kamal Ravikant

#74. 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

#75. It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

Lisa Kleypas

#76. If you are never the cause of someone's sadness, you will never have difficulties finding happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#77. 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

#78. Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Franz Kafka

#79. But the truth is, love is as much fate as it is planning, as much a beauty as it is a disaster. Finding

Kiera Cass

#80. 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

#81. The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.

David S. Baxter

#82. he came to realize a simple truth: Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

Cal Newport

#83. Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

Isabel Allende

#84. designers actually can change the world for the better by making the complicated simple and finding beauty in truth.

Michael Bierut

#85. 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

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

Winston Churchill

#87. We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Thomas Aquinas

#88. The truth is, you are your own "special someone," and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

Deborah King

#89. The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Byron Katie

#90. I ask no comfort," Taran replied, "but the truth, be it harsh or happy."
"Ah, my sweet robin," said Orddu, "for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.

Lloyd Alexander

#91. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.

A.J. Darkholme

#92. 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

#93. I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

Jim Crace

#94. Finding that core of truth within yourself ... That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love ... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make.

David Wilcock

#95. It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him.

Kate Elliott

#96. Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things.

Debasish Mridha

#97. This may account for Americans' overuse of the courts as a means of finding coherence and stability. As other institutions become unusable as mechanisms for the control of wanton information, the courts stand as a final arbiter of truth. For how long, no one knows. I

Neil Postman

#98. The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something - such as goodness, truth and beauty - by experiencing nature and culture or, last but not least, by experiencing another human being in his very uniqueness - by loving him.

Viktor E. Frankl

#99. No matter how we come to Jesus - whether we are coming to him for the first time or finding our way back to him after faking it, or even if we have tried to be righteous by adding our own rules to the Bible - we are all in need of his grace and truth.

Jefferson Bethke

#100. There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

Dawn Powell