Truth-seeking

To speak truth, we must seek truth. Truth-seeking requires persistence and humility. When we seek truth in any form, we are seeking to understand some small aspect of the Reality that created and encompasses us all. A commitment to truth-seeking will sometimes takes us outside our comfort zone, obliging us to admit things we would rather deny or calling us to difficult action. To embrace truth-seeking requires that we grow beyond a sense of shame at discovering ourselves mistaken. We strive to replace this with acceptance or even pleasure that we can grow and that others can outgrow us. It means being willing to subsume our opinions and preferences to a higher calling. Our yearning for truth must exceed our yearning to prove ourselves right, if reality is to guide our action, compassion and love. Related virtues : curiosity, humility, doubt, honesty, integrity.
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Truth-seeking - Openness
Hear all sides and you will be enlightened. Hear one side and you will be in the dark.
  • Author: Wei Zheng to Emperor Tai Cong - Tang Dynasty - China
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
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Page 153
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Acceptance - Truth-seeking
Geese are white, crows are black.  No argument will change this. 
  • Author: Lao Zi - Spring and Autumn Period
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Courage - Strength - Truth-seeking
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
  • Author: Plato
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Love - Serenity - Truth-seeking
Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings,
man will not find peace
  • Author: Buddha
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Heart of a Buddha
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Serenity - Truth-seeking
Peace comes from within
Do not seek it without
  • Author: Buddha
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Discernment - Faith - Persistence - Truth-seeking - Universal Ethics
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,--real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.
  • Author: Müller, Max
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Introduction to the Upanishads Vol. II. http://www.sacred-texts.com/about.htm
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Faith - Skepticism - Truth-seeking
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  • Author: Einstein, Albert
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Knowledge - Truth-seeking
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
  • Author: Tolstoy, Count Leo
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Skepticism - Truth-seeking
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
  • Author: Gide, Andre
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Insight - Mindfulness - Truth-seeking
By exhaustively examining one's own mind,
one may understand his nature.
One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
  • Author: Mencius
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Devotion - Truth-seeking
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
  • Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
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Critical Path
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Truth-seeking
Rely on the teacher's message, not the personality
Rely on the meaning, not just the words
Rely on the real meaning, not the provisional one
Rely on your wisdom mind, not your ordinary, judgemental mind
  • Author: Buddha
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Heart of a Buddha
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Truth-seeking
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
  • Author: Mead, Margaret
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Truth-seeking
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
  • Author: Locke, John
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding
by John Locke
Page Dedicatory Epistle, Book IV, Ch. 7, Sec. 11
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Truth-seeking
Nonviolence and truth (Satya) are inseparable and presuppose one another.... There is no god higher than truth.
  • Author: Gandhi, Mahatma
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True Patriotism: Some Sayings of Mahatma Gandhi
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Truth-seeking
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with Truth.
  • Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Acceptance - Truth-seeking
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
  • Author: Sagan, Carl
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Truth is not determined by majority vote.
  • Author: Gwyn, Doug
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Growth - Truth-seeking
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
  • Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth
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Pragmatism - Truth-seeking
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
  • Author: James, William
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Balance - Creativity - Industry - Knowledge - Truth-seeking
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
  • Author: Mark Twain
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Courage - Humility - Industry - Truth-seeking
From the cowardice that dare not face new truth,
From the laziness that is contented with half truth,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, deliver us.
  • Author: Kenya
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Integrity - Truth-seeking
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
  • Author: Huxley, Aldous
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Growth - Truth-seeking
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
  • Author: Clark, Frank A.
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Growth - Truth-seeking
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
  • Author: Churchill, Winston
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Truth-seeking
The gift of Truth
overcomes all gifts.
The joy of Truth
overcomes all pleasures.
The taste of Truth
overcomes all sweetness.
  • Author: Buddha
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Truth-seeking - Curiosity
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
  • Author: Einstein, Albert
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Truth-seeking
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
  • Author: Lakoff, George
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Whose Freedom?
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Truth-seeking
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
  • Author: Amiel, Henri-Frédéric
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Acceptance - Truth-seeking
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
  • Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur - German philosopher
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Acceptance - Truth-seeking
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
  • Author: Watts, Alan W.
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Truth-seeking
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance: We don't know because we don't want to know. 
  • Author: Aldous Huxley
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Truth-seeking - Tolerance
Truth is one; sages call it by various names.
  • Author: Rig Veda
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Truth-seeking
Truth alone triumphs, not untruth.  By truthfulness the path of felicity is opened up, the path which is taken by the sages, freed from cravings, and which leads them to truth's eternal abode. 
  • Author: Mundaka Upanishad
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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything. 
  • Author: Swami Vivekananda
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Truth-seeking
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
  • Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
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Truth-seeking - Justice
Justice is truth in action.
  • Author: Disraeli, Benjamin
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Truth-seeking
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
  • Author: Gibran, Kahlil
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Truth-seeking - Honesty
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
  • Author: Confucius
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Love - Truth-seeking
If God is Love and Truth, then in truth and love we shall find Him.  Whether we are His creation or He is ours does not change the nature of the quest.
  • Author: ValerieT
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The Dark Side
by Valerie Tarico
Page 257
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Truth-seeking
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
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Truth-seeking
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
  • Author: Mencken, Henry Louis
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Prejudices, 3rd Series
by Henry Louis Mencken
Page Chapter 3
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Accuracy - Truth-seeking
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
  • Author: Edwards, Tryon
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