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• To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Deceit, Action

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• No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Art, Truth, Games

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• Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Truth, Ideas, Two

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• Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.

  Norman Dorsen

  Education, Art, Truth

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• If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Differences, People

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Relentless, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

  Jonathan Littell

  Believe, Air, Drink

  Jonathan Littell (2009). “The Kindly Ones: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.

  Alexandre Koyre

  Way, Belief, Strange

  "Newtonian Studies" by Alexandre Koyre, (p. 114), 1965.

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• Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fantasy, Bumper Sticker, Settling

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• Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Spring, Men

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• For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Heart, Fate

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Wisdom, Art

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• We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Opinion, Share, Rejects

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• Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; but the denial stays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Truth, Freedom, Men

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.

  Bas van Fraassen

  Mean, Science, Reality

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• The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Independence, Attainment

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• Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...

  E. M. Forster

  Mazes, Conscious, Hard

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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• My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and goodness rather than weakness and failings in those who did so great a work in their time. We recognize that our forefathers were human. They doubtless made mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making mistakes. But the mistakes were minor when compared with the marvelous work which they accomplished.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mistake, Church, Weakness

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• Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Birthday, Justice, Political

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• Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Reality, Men

  Letter written following his Hajj, 1964.

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• If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics in the U.S. for the most part don't make these arguments; instead they have retreated from defending the university as a citadel of public values and in doing so have abdicated any sense of social responsibility to the idea of the university as a site of inspired by the search for truth, justice, freedom, and dignity.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Ideas, Government

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

  David Drake

  Decision, Worthy, Historian

  David Drake (2009). “Patriots”, p.39, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.

  Mike Rowe

  Understanding, Pedants, Sides

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• In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Truth Is, Logical

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• What brings us to perfection? An ingrained faith in God, the 'faith that makes real the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1), the faith whereby Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain and was commended as righteous (cf. Heb 11:4). It is such faith that fills those assiduous in the search for truth with great aspiration for the exalted gifts of God, and leads them to the spiritual knowledge of created beings; and it pours into their hearts the inexhaustible treasures of the Spirit.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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