Truth Seekers Quotes:

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: World, Littles, Truth Seekers

Seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here.

- e. e. cummings

source: "73 poems (3)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1962.

topic: Path, Truth Is, Truth Seekers

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

- Rene Descartes

source: "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.

topic: Life, Truth, Real, Spiritual Truth, Doubted

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

- Andre Gide

source: "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.

topic: Truth, Believe, Profound, Learning The Truth, Doubt And Certainty

Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

- Manly Hall

topic: Wise, Lonely, Stars, Foolish Man, Seekers

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Warrior, Long, Design, Gonzo Journalism, Truth Seekers

The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.

- Harold Klemp

topic: Heaven, Trying, Window, Truth Seekers

What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers are all charlatans. You can only feel the truth of something.

- Sarnath Banerjee

topic: Knowing, Essence, Giving, Truth Seekers

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: God, Thinking, Cities, Truth Seekers

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.

- H. L. Mencken

source: 1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

topic: Lonely, Truth, Lying, Dump, Roasting

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

- William Ellery Channing

topic: Mind, Doe, Tools, Mind Free, Truth Seekers

I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: People, Life Is, Sensational, Truth Seekers

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

- Thomas Huxley

source: Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

topic: Truth, Men, Done, Truth Seekers

Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists.

- Park Dietz

topic: Jobs, Outcomes, Matter, Partisans, Forensics

Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.

- Joel Salatin

topic: Country, Humble, Light, Truth Seekers

Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.

- John Corvino

topic: Christian, Religious, Atheist, Contentious, Exemplary

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

- H. L. Mencken

source: "Homo Neanderthalensis Baltimore Sun". "The Impossible Mencken" by H. L. Mencken, June 29, 1925.

topic: Men, Hands, Progress, Valuable Things, Human Progress