Seeking Truth Quotes

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

Leo Tolstoy

"'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."

Francis Bacon

"Truth is a pathless land."

J. Krishnamurti

"The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the bottom of it."

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."

George Berkeley

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."

Robert M. Pirsig

"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."

René Descartes

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."

Simone de Beauvoir