The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself… — Richard Dawkins 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
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
Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed… — Theodore Parker 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
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
To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right,… — Alfred the Great 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“It is our attitude toward Truth, and our power to receive that classifies us. Paul mentions three classes of people: natural; spiritual;… — John Wright Follette 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
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the… — Max Planck 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
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill 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
“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
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them. — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he… — Jean de La Fontaine 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
