William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

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

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I seek the truth.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.