Georg Solti Quotes

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.