B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes

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

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

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.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

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

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.

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.

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.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

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.

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

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

The historian has a special obligation to sobriety and fidelity to the record.

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

Our job is to get as close to the verified truth as is possible.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

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

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

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

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.