History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth,… — David Drake Copy Share Image
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it… — Mooji Copy Share Image
I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the… — Jonathan Littell Copy Share Image
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world,… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original… — Caryl Parker Haskins Copy Share Image
It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no… — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Have you seen anybody dancing? He is totally aware of himself and dances his way in a manner as decided by his… — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently… — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This… — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world,… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image