Circumstances Quote by George Santayana

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain…

— Thomas Merton

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed…

— Anonymous

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

— Sri Aurobindo

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

— Thomas Paine

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union…

— Pythagoras

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

— Simone Weil

“No one will seek the highest [things] if he believes that there is no truth, that nothing is his fault, and that government will…

— James V. Schall

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

— Pope John Paul II

“The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept the possibility…

— Stephen McAndrew

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

— Werner Heisenberg