Top 100 Seek Truth Quotes
#1. No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.
Dean Koontz
#2. If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
Epictetus
#3. Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
Denis Diderot
#5. You envisioned the idea of a Confessor for the right reasons. Life is truth. Truth is Life. You wanted a way to seek truth. Such a cause, in the promotion of life, is noble.
Terry Goodkind
#6. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
George Washington
#7. There's no right or wrong way to seek truth, and as the old axiom states, all paths lead to the same place.
Skye Alexander
#8. I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
H. Rap Brown
#9. Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph.
Kevin Ashton
#10. The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.
Goswami Kriyananda
#11. There is a wrong way to look for advice,
and there is a right way that will suffice.
Seek truth and all will be alright,
not what you want to hear,
not what you want to be right.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. Use the talents you've developed to create goodwill, to ease the burdens of those who are not as fortunate and to seek truth humbly, without insisting that you hold the only keys to it.
Laura Burroughs
#14. To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.
Michael Servetus
#15. Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
Peter Jennings
#16. Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
Plato
#17. In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
Rene Descartes
#18. The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.
Amy Wilentz
#19. I will die, later or sooner, and what I understand will be lost, for when men and women seek truth, what they find is as deceptive as lies, and neither truth nor lies exist outside of a deceptive soul.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#20. Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
Isabel Allende
#22. All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.
Edith Stein
#23. If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
William Sloane Coffin
#24. You are ready...Seek Truth and you will reach your potential.
Katy Tackes
#25. They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
Giordano Bruno
#26. When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
Edith Stein
#27. I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.
Layman Pang
#28. Let us seek truth everywhere;
let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
that will form the new ground.
Romain Rolland
#29. Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Horace Mann
#30. If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Epictetus
#31. To never become so certain or high that he wasn't willing to seek truth.
Brandon Sanderson
#32. Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.
Dean Sluyter
#33. How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
Isabel Allende
#34. Those who criticize. They desire our blood, not our pain. But still I must achieve. I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the Power I was sent forth. For the world. For the children. But have mercy, for Ive been bleeding a long time now.
Michael Jackson
#35. There is no need to seek truth, only stop having views.
Sengcan
#36. In the beginning we seek truth.
In the middle we seek reason.
In the end we seek peace.
L.M. Browning
#37. I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
#39. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#41. Try not to seek after the true
Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)
Edward Conze
#42. If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#43. Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
Vincent Van Gogh
#44. When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#46. In all my years on earth, I have seen time and time again that those who are the happiest are those who have the courage to follow their hearts - to believe what otherwise would be unbelievable; to seek the light; to find the truth.
Michael McLean
#48. What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..
Victor Serge
#50. Seek and you shall find the love that resides within you for you.
Truth Devour
#51. It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#52. We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
Helen Thomas
#53. Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
John Galsworthy
#54. Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
David Mitchell
#56. Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.
Eckhart Tolle
#57. Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth
Natalya
#59. I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
#60. 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
#61. The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.
Sathya Sai Baba
#62. I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Michel De Montaigne
#64. Truth Is As Plan As The Inspired Words David Wrote In The Psalms: A future Awaits For All Those Who Seek Peace..But All EVIL Will Eventually Be Destroyed; There Will Be No Future For The Wicked.
Timothy Pina
#65. If your partners in business do not match up to God's standards, then seek other partners.
Sunday Adelaja
#66. The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#67. If you would seek to find yourself
look not in the mirror
for there is but a shadow there'
A stranger ...
SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH
Sidney Sheldon
#68. To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
John Lancaster Spalding
#69. The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
Timothy Radcliffe
#70. Goddamn it; speak your mind whether the truth will hurt, feel deeply regardless of the pain you fear, do accordingly in seek of your dreams whilst including the uphill struggles ... Life isn't a a fairytale but it is if you make it one.
Nikki Rowe
#72. It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
Albert Pike
#73. And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
Jacqueline Carey
#74. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition
Julian Baggini
#75. 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
#76. Listen to your inner voice... for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you... Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you.
Caroline Joy Adams
#77. 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
#78. I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.
Sarah Moon
#79. For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
Noam Chomsky
#80. They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
Fanny Kemble
#81. Smartass Disciple: I've been searching for so long.I still can't find the truth.
Master of Stupidity: Until you've lost and felt desperate, you won't be found.
Toba Beta
#82. Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
Gerald May
#83. The very desire to seek the truth often causes people, who do not know how it should be sought correctly, to make judgements about things that they do not perceive and in that way they make mistakes.
Rene Descartes
#84. Listen to hypotheses as they plead their cases before you, but remember that you are not a hypothesis, you are the judge. Therefore do not seek to argue for one side or another, for if you knew your destination, you would already be there.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#85. They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments ... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.
Sheri S. Tepper
#86. Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
Gautama Buddha
#87. The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
Nikola Tesla
#88. You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
Tertullian
#89. I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.
Maya Deren
#90. As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
John Ortberg
#91. I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.
Douglas Booth
#92. What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
Albert Einstein
#93. Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.
Ryokan
#94. The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
Mencius
#95. Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.
Peter Singer
#96. Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
Andre Gide
#98. He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.
John Lanchester
#99. The difference between a debater and a polemicist is that unlike debaters, who try to seek a common ground, a polemicist intends to establish the truth of a controversial point of view while refuting the opposing point of view - there is no room for compromise.
Henrik O. Lunde
#100. It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe