Search for Knowledge Quotes

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousand-fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

I always admired Niels Bohr for uttering his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one in the possession of definite truth.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

His desire for wisdom, more than anything else, together with the nobility of his birth, characterized the nature of his noble mind.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

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

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

We wish that in all parts of the Kingdom many will become wise and knowledgeable, by having access to a fountain of knowledge, and a seminary of doctrine., so that they, made proficient by study and observationwill serve divine justice and will become useful to us, for the administration of Justice and of the laws which we urge everyone to obey. We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.