William Wordsworth Quotes

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Seek truth from facts.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

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

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

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

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

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Modern science's defense against self-delusion relies upon a spirit of open and critical inquiry. This, though hardly infallible, ostensibly uncovers errors and thereby proceeds towards objective truth

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

I really like research.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.