Saint Augustine Quotes

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

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

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.

We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.

The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.