Top 100 Search Of Truth Quotes
#1. [M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
John Locke
#2. I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. When I escape from my cage of conformity, I grow wings to fly in search of truth and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
Nathanael Emmons
#5. Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.
Rajneesh
#7. A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford
#8. In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,
But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!
H.P. Lovecraft
#9. He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.
John Locke
#10. Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever ...
Pope Benedict XVI
#11. Have you seen anybody dancing? He is totally aware of himself and dances his way in a manner as decided by his heart. Meditation is also similar to the dancer. You need not reach anyplace, you have to just delve deep in yourself to find the true self and be a Soul Searcher.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
#12. Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for it, and is willing to be altered by it. It is not a gift given without cost or transformation, nor one to be used lightly.
Faith Hunter
#13. It is not ... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
William Osler
#14. We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
Blaise Pascal
#15. You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.
Pope John Paul II
#16. A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.
C.P. Snow
#17. Sometimes, to overcome a hurdle before us, we don't need to search for new truth or understanding of God so much as we need to live out what we already know.
Amy Layne Litzelman
#18. It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.
Slade Gorton
#19. The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be ... When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#20. We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Antoine Lavoisier
#21. Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.
Louis De Broglie
#22. It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving," he explained, "and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."70
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
#23. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
Azar Nafisi
#24. The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#25. Truth Is ... We All Search For LOVE In Our Lives That Will Last. Often It Doesn't And Send Us In Despair. Real Unfailing LOVE Comes From The Heavens Above. No Matter What Your religion Is ... We Are All Taught That God's LOVE Is Perfect, Undying And Last Forever!
Timothy Pina
#26. Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher
Ted Dekker
#27. You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.
Hsu Yun
#28. To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#29. Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly," then they need to search.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. The distinctive characteristic of religious meditation is that it is a search for truth which springs from love and which seeks to possess the truth not only by knowledge but also by love.
Thomas Merton
#32. 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
#33. The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner
#35. The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
John Ruskin
#36. The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China's Confucian society, the best pathway to perfection was the development of a virtuous life.
Patrick Mendis
#37. She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.
Michael Oehley
#38. Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence.
Alija Izetbegovic
#39. Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.
Robert Holden
#40. No one has rightly sought the truth who has not encountered at the end of this search - whether to accept or reject Him - our Lord, Jesus Christ, "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," Truth that stands against the world and is a reproach to all worldliness. - Eugene Rose
Damascene Christensen
#41. No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.
Vasily Smyslov
#42. The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
Vernon Howard
#43. Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame De Stael
#44. Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#45. Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
Bertrand Russell
#46. Truth resides in every human heart,
and one has to search for it there,
and to be guided by truth as one sees it.
But no one has a right to coerce others
to act according to his own view of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.
Breyten Breytenbach
#48. There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."
Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
Patrick Rothfuss
#49. So it is in life ... In search of the truth, people make two steps forward and one step back. Sufferings, mistakes, and the tedium of life throw them back, but the thirst for truth and a stubborn will drive them on and on. And who knows? Maybe they'll row their way to the real truth ...
Anton Chekhov
#50. Without free speech no search for truth is possible ... no discovery of truth is useful ... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh
#51. In the search for truth human beings take two steps forward and one step back. Suffering, mistakes and weariness of life thrust them back, but the thirst for truth and stubborn will drive them forward. And who knows? Perhaps they will reach the truth at last.
Anton Chekhov
#52. It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.
Marcel Proust
#53. You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there
Sunday Adelaja
#54. A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#55. I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not
Elizabeth Fry
#56. The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
Gina Barreca
#57. The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.
Dale Rex Coman
#58. The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
Charles H. Townes
#59. A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
Jack White
#60. Family is the garden of humanity where every flower grows with love and kindness, in search of beauty, purpose and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#62. In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
Paul Tillich
#63. It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.
Vincenzo Galilei
#64. If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Morris West
#65. The mind is beautiful and always in search of beauty.
In a moment it can run from joy to untold agony.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Libraries were a perfect illustration of human's search for truth and the frustration at never finding it.
Jonathan Ryan
#67. When you search for happiness, it flies away.
When you serve others, you will find the way.
When you share blessings and express kindness,
You will find the source of enduring happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. ... the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation.
Coleman Barks
#69. Then having drunk deep of the cup of wisdom I looked into the hearts of men, and there found I yet greater mysteries and was glad, for only in the Search for Truth could my Soul be stilled, and the flame within be quenched. Down
Dr. Diane England
#70. An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.
Peter Sloterdijk
#71. The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science-that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
Alexandre Koyre
#72. I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.
Frederick Lenz
#73. As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.
Mooji
#74. I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.
Augusto De Luca
#75. He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.
Maria Montessori
#76. When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.
Alston Chase
#77. The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth will Find It. The Truth is Hidden to the Blind, but he who has the Mental Eye Sees the Truth.
Gautama Buddha
#78. Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Linus Pauling
#79. Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
Maxim Gorky
#80. A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.
Masha Gessen
#82. Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
Leo Tolstoy
#84. Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.
Pope Benedict XVI
#85. To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
Joseph Joubert
#86. Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.
Abhijit Naskar
#87. This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. Even in these times of ours," he wrote in 1948, "when political passion and brute force hang like swords over the anguished heads of men, that even in such times there is being held high and undimmed the standard of our ideal search for truth.
Brandon R. Brown
#89. Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within,
Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.
Nikki Rowe
#90. Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
Jeremy Paxman
#91. We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.
John Nelson Darby
#93. As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
Albert Einstein
#94. Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
Rachel Held Evans
#95. Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth.
J.R. Rim
#96. The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself.
University Of Navarra
#97. The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.
Eric Chaisson
#98. It's too late for any of us. But you youngsters, you still have hope. Go and explore. Don't be afraid to search for the truth. There is nothing to fear.
Kamala Nair
#99. When you search for the truth, you begin to believe in the search and lose sight of the truth.
Chloe Thurlow
#100. Don't let belief masquerade as knowledge. Truth is real, and not just a matter of personal perception: Search for it, dig for it, follow the evidence. The truth isn't free; you have to earn it, and when you do, it will set you free.
David F. Capps
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