Top 100 Quotes About Seeking Truth
#2. 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
#3. While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
Miguel De Unamuno
#5. 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
#6. In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
#8. A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
Claude Bernard
#9. Walk with those seeking truth ... RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE FOUND IT.
Deepak Chopra
#10. 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
#11. The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#12. Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
Sharon Begley
#13. Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
Wen Jiabao
#14. Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.
Tyrone Hayes
#15. Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth ... these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.
Mel White
#16. Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
Leonard Freed
#17. I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
Muhammad Ali
#18. The body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.
Harriet Lerner
#19. After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
Gautama Buddha
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue?
Richard Dawkins
#25. Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.
Cass R. Sunstein
#40. 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
#41. We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital "T" or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small "t," seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.
David W. Earle
#42. 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
#43. Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
Jason Calacanis
#44. Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the
greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them
Bert Hellinger
#45. In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#46. 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
#47. The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.
Bob Dylan
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. A Speechmaker's Prayer:
"Let each word of mine be tender and sweet,
Just in case someone might make me eat it.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#52. 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
#53. We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.
Bryant McGill
#54. 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
#55. To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.
Will Advise
#56. All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.
Ka Chinery
#57. All answers that you seek can only be found within.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. Whenever we make the choice to bring fear into the light with truth-seeking questions, we shall find soul-growing answers.
Molly Friedenfeld
#61. 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
#62. Your truth: No one knows it better than you. But never be discourage in seeking others in discovering your deeper truth.
C.C. Wyatt
#63. He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.
Nicholas Carr
#65. We spend our lives failing to realise this obvious truth, and thus anxiously seeking to fortify our boundaries, to build our egos and assert our superiority over others, as if we could separate ourselves from them, without realising that interdependence makes us what we are.
Oliver Burkeman
#66. When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us.
Kamal Ravikant
#67. One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.
Sergey Vedenyo
#68. Reaching inside the heart, at the core of the soul, is a deep hunger. That hunger is a passion which seeks truth.
Pat Patrick
#69. Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.
Abhijit Naskar
#70. 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
#71. Never stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope
Sunday Adelaja
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.
Kamal Ravikant
#76. The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.
Pope Benedict XVI
#78. My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite
Michael Levy
#79. Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
#81. Explore your untamed dreams and you just might find a unique place where a confluence of paths lead towards your destiny.
Kathy Goodhew
#82. 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
#83. Only type of people the bible states God is seeking, Worshipers in spirit and truth.
Evans Biya
#84. Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.
Carlos Wallace
#85. Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
Isaac Asimov
#86. Your presence fills every space of a heart that seeks to find; Your love is here to save us and Your name is love defined.
Lisa Mischelle Wood
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.
Debasish Mridha
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. The truth I am seeking is not in the drink, but in me
Marcel Proust
#95. If Christ is missing from your life, it isn't because He is lost.
Toni Sorenson
#96. 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
#97. Seeking you go astray seeking you go in dreams seeking you go somewhere else and truth is here. Seeking, you go then; and truth is NOW
Rajneesh
#98. 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
#99. Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Albert Camus
#100. Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.
Jaggi Vasudev
