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Quotes About Discovery

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
~ Bernard Berenson
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
~ Austin O'Malley
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
~ Marianne Williamson
It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand
~ Neil Young
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.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Learning the truth has become my life's love.
~ Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
~ David Mitchell
Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
~ Abbi Glines, Fallen Too Far
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.
~ John H. Lienhard
What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.
~ William Sargant
To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
~ George Sand
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.
~ Frances Sargent Osgood
Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
~ Paula Fox
As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
~ Ernst Toller
Endless is the search of truth.
~ Laurence Sterne
It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.
~ Charles Kimball
Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
~ Cassandra King
The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.
~ Amanda Palmer
A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
~ Anthony de Mello
I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
~ Austin O'Malley