Bertrand Russell Quotes

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

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

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

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

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

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

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

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.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.