Top 100 Quotes About Seeking The Truth
#1. Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
Henning Mankell
#2. One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.
Sergey Vedenyo
#3. The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Terry Pratchett
#4. I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
Cynthia Kenyon
#5. Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.
Ravi Zacharias
#6. Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing.
Michael Connelly
#7. If you are not actively seeking the truth, you are destined to only know what people tell you, and people will only tell you what they want you to know.
Jack Mierop
#8. Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Graham Greene
#9. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
#10. The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake ... can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
Franz Boas
#11. Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.
James Allen
#12. The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it's true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.
Stefan Emunds
#13. After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
Gautama Buddha
#14. 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
#15. According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Francis Richter
#16. Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.
Calvin W. Allison
#17. What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue?
Richard Dawkins
#18. As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.
Adolf Hitler
#20. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#21. The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.
Ayn Rand
#22. Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#23. It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices.
Ravi Zacharias
#24. You're after perfection,'Matt said.
'Is that so awful?'
'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.
Tim Relf
#25. 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
#26. It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max Planck
#27. If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.
Guillermo Del Toro
#28. In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words ...
We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'
Rumi
#29. These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King's College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.
Steven J. Lawson
#30. When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.
Heidi Reagan
#31. Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.
Cass R. Sunstein
#32. Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33. Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
Jason Calacanis
#34. Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the
greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them
Bert Hellinger
#35. In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#36. To think because you have been "saved" that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn't fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.
Bob Dylan
#38. When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.
William Anthony Donohue
#40. Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
Bryant H. McGill
#41. Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.
James Russell Lowell
#42. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
#43. To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.
Will Advise
#44. All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.
Ka Chinery
#47. Whenever we make the choice to bring fear into the light with truth-seeking questions, we shall find soul-growing answers.
Molly Friedenfeld
#48. He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulously seeking succor, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.
Rick Yancey
#49. He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.
Nicholas Carr
#51. When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us.
Kamal Ravikant
#52. I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I kept coming back to the thought that without God I can't get to what I'm looking for.
Goswami Kriyananda
#53. Reaching inside the heart, at the core of the soul, is a deep hunger. That hunger is a passion which seeks truth.
Pat Patrick
#54. If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
Thomas Ligotti
#55. There is a difference between seeking to know things for the sake of knowledge itself and being willing to undergo renunciation to be possessed by the truth.
James M. Houston
#56. The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.
Kamal Ravikant
#57. The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.
Pope Benedict XVI
#58. Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
#60. Only type of people the bible states God is seeking, Worshipers in spirit and truth.
Evans Biya
#61. Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.
Carlos Wallace
#62. I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called "the truth," whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious and mundane.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#63. There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
Lemony Snicket
#64. When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.
Debasish Mridha
#65. The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.
T. Scott McLeod
#66. The truth I am seeking is not in the drink, but in me
Marcel Proust
#67. One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.
Sami Al-Arian
#68. Some of the worst enemies of the man who is seeking for the truth will appeal to him as old friends in whom he has had great confidence.
Joseph French Johnson
#69. Do not wear yourself out fighting facts;
do not be weary of seeking truth.
Truth is more than information.
It is the gatekeeper of knowledge.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.
H. Emilie Cady
#73. If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. To speak knowing the truth, among prudent and dear men, about what is greatest and dear, is a thing that is safe and encouraging. But to present arguments at a time when one is in doubt and seeking... is a thing both frightening and slippery.
Plato
#75. Even if we change practices or behaviors, we are seeking transformed hearts. We must know in our bones God's heart for equality and wholeness in the Body of Christ then live our lives out of that truth, with invitation and joy, as living prophets of God's way of life.
Sarah Bessey
#76. The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#77. You won't be able to find the truth by merely seeking it.
You also have to change your perspective and yourself.
Toba Beta
#78. If you want the answer - ask the question.
Lorii Myers
#79. People wasted so much time seeking out the love of their lives in the shape of a partner, when the truth was that for most the real loves of their lives were their children - and everyone else was dispensable.
Anna McPartlin
#80. If moral reflection consists in seeking a fit between the judgments we make and the principles we affirm, how can such reflection lead us to justice, or moral truth?
Michael J. Sandel
#81. God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.
Derek Barton
#82. Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.
Plato
#83. The Father isn't seeking people to come and worship him who like a particular aesthetic style; he isn't seeking people to worship him who can sing well. The Father seeks people to worship him "in spirit and truth." Worship must be the way God wants, not the way I want.
Justin Imel
#84. People as a whole see a limited scope of the world, chained to their notions, often misguided notions, of what truth is. Seeking something more, I would argue, is the very act of unchaining oneself from the cave wall.
Elizabeth Finn
#85. Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
Wen Jiabao
#86. The real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. It's like trying to control a dream.
Terence McKenna
#88. In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
Nancy Gibbs
#89. It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.
Osho
#90. In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler
#91. ... but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
Simone De Beauvoir
#92. Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind
is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is
no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward
poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#93. What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#95. Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth ... these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.
Mel White
#96. The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
Adyashanti
#97. The peculiar vanity of man, who wants to believe and who wants other people to believe that he is seeking after truth, when in fact it is love that he is asking the world to give him.
Albert Camus
#98. The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.
Josh Gates
#99. Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
Leonard Freed
#100. In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
Elias Hicks
