Ian Mcewan Quotes

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

The whole company of saints bears witness to the unfailing truth that without real effort no one wins the crown

The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

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

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.

It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there.

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.