J. Reuben Clark Quotes

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

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

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

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

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

There are no secrets in science.

I welcome a scrutiny of my entire record.

Science is a quest for understanding.

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

We do not find truth groveling through error.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

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.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.