Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
