Discovery of Truth Quotes

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

Take a journey to the realm of the truth.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.