Quotes on Seeking Truth

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

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

A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.