First and last, what is demanded of genius is 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
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
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
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
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
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue. — William Ellery Channing 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
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
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
Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which… — Orville Dewey 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
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance,… — Byron Katie 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
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
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
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
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
“Honesty is a moral virtue, a matter of the will. Honesty means willing the truth with the whole of your heart. This… — Peter Kreeft 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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