Quotes About Pursuit

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

There are people out there who have been trying to pursue acting, but they've said stuff like, Oh, we're not looking for anybody with your race. But now, we're all here to show the truth.

Endless is the search of truth.

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.