Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

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.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

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

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

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

I'm on a search for the truth.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

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

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

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

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

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.