Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Seek truth from facts.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

One must be careful not to prejudge the past.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

The key to being a good interviewer is to listen, no matter how heinous the act that person has committed, you have to listen to them and ask the right questions to get the truth out.