The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan’s beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively… — Terryl Givens Copy Share Image
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory;… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
