Blaise Pascal Quotes

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

I seek the truth.

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

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

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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

Dedicate one's life to truth.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

I believe that we should keep the truth as a priority.

The truth is a good thing.

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.

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.