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Quotes About Discovery

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right
~ Ray Dalio
There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.
~ Karl Pearson
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
~ Henri Poincare
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
~ Isaac Newton
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.
~ Vannevar Bush
The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
~ Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
~ Henri Poincare
There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.
~ John Daido Loori
There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
~ Kabir
Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.
~ Brian Froud
Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
~ Seneca the Younger
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
~ Agatha Christie
I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.
~ Mark E. Smith
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
~ Don DeLillo
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
~ Peter Kreeft
I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
~ Horace Mann
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
~ Henry Ford
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.
~ Bill Maher
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
~ Isabel Allende
A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'
~ Rumi