Truth Seeking Quotes

“WONDERLAND

It is a person's unquenchable thirst for wonder
That sets them on their initial quest for truth.
The more doors you open, the smaller you become.
The more places you see and the more people you meet,
The greater your curiosity grows.
The greater your curiosity, the more you will wander.
The more you wander, the greater the wonder.
The more you quench your thirst for wonder,
The more you drink from the cup of life.
The more you see and experience, the closer to truth you become.
The more languages you learn, the more truths you can unravel.
And the more countries you travel, the greater your understanding.
And the greater your understanding, the less you see differences.
And the more knowledge you gain, the wider your perspective,
And the wider your perspective, the lesser your ignorance.
Hence, the more wisdom you gain, the smaller you feel.
And the smaller you feel, the greater you become.
The more you see, the more you love --
The more you love, the less walls you see.
The more doors you are willing to open,
The less close-minded you will be.
The more open-minded you are,
The more open your heart.
And the more open your heart,
The more you will be able to
Send and receive --
Truth and TRUE
Unconditional
LOVE.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A new building built on old foundation can't last. Maybe for a while; but when the earthquakes come and the floods flow in, it will wash out. A new building built on a new foundation, though, will be able to endure the ground shaking and the waves that come in. To build a new generation of people, a new foundation needs to be built— the old one destroyed. They once destroyed the foundations of old; but those can be built again. Do you seek comfort? Or do you seek Truth? Your comfort has done nothing for you. Funny how looking into a mirror can cause so much discomfort. I have held many mirrors up for you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.”
― Arthur Stanley Eddington, Science and the Unseen World

“The most fact-oriented people are those willing to check self-proclaimed "fact-checkers", the most scientifically-minded people are those willing to question every so-called "scientific consensus", and the most virtue-driven people are those willing to expose "virtue signallers".”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“I don't seek truth, for I am truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Let us attack, then.

Let us attack, but let us distinguish. The characteristic of truth is never to run into excess. What need has she of exaggeration? Some things must be destroyed, and some things must be merely cleared up and investigated. What power there is in a courteous and serious examination! Let us not therefore carry flame where light alone will suffice.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Reaching inside the heart, at the core of the soul, is a deep hunger. That hunger is a passion which seeks truth.”
― Pat Patrick, Awakening the Dream Within

“Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself.”
― Maria Erving

“To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.”
― Will Advise

“Truth should be your ally, not your competitor."
From: Time Dancer and the Potion of Invincibility”
― Robert William Hult

“There’s a reason it takes multi-million dollar budgets to sell carbonated drinks, while water sells without a marketing team. The truth endures.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Art of Talking to Yourself

“By His grace let it be that 'sound doctrine' is, in itself, not a burden but a privilege to the Christian life. Let it be a form of worship. It is my belief that God has His ways of entering hearts and revealing Himself to people of the world who, perhaps by no fault of their own, have little to no access to doctrine regarding His character and nature and what He is and has been about; but as a people who claim to be His children, ones saved by grace through faith, would it not be hypocritical to downplay a deeper, more intimate understanding of the Lord of our lives in heart, soul, and mind? Where we display shallow relationships, where we salute an arrogant and willful ignorance of the God we serve and the Christ we represent, it is understandable that truth seekers will turn elsewhere for truth. It is with humility, honesty, and respect that every non-nominal Christian is a theologian and an apologist to some degree, to their ability God has gifted.”
― Criss Jami

“Don't be afraid!" Tim hollered from the car. 'Seek the truth!"
"Yeah, seek the truth," Mac said. His eyes moved in his head as if he was trying to understand something himself. And for the first time, I considered that maybe there were no doors after all. Maybe when you look for a man's door, you create it. You create the door that shuts you out. I looked past him and focused on the door I could see.”
― Penelope Przekop, Aberrations

“Don't be afraid!" Tim hollered from the car. "Seek the truth!"
"Yeah, seek the truth," Mac said. His eyes moved in his head as if he was trying to understand something himself. And for the first time, I considered that maybe there were no doors after all. Maybe when you look for a man's door, you create it. You create the door that shuts you out. I looked past him and focused on the door I could see.”
― Penelope Przekop, Aberrations

“I thought tinieblas were nothing but a story—just a word for shadows. Tales to scare children into obedience.

Horror tales are inspired by reality.”
― Gabriela Romero Lacruz, The Sun and the Void

“Wisdom is not in the accumulation of truths but in the shedding of illusions.”
― David Maze, If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations: Think Fight Club Vibes for The Self-Improvement Fanatic.

“Last, Frankfurt aruges that the contemporary spread of bullshit also has a deeper source: our being skeptical and denying that we can ever know the truth of how things truly are. He argues that when we give up on believing that there are actual truths that can be known and shared observable knowledge, we give up on the notion of objective inquiry. It's like we just collectively shrug our shoulder and say, "Whatever. It's too hard to get to the truth, so if I say it's true, that's good enough.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness

“Nationalism emerges not simply as pride, but as the primary means by which belonging is moralized. It offers an emotionally satisfying but philosophically shallow answer to the problem of identity: You are because you belong. You matter because you are ours.

But nationalism does not seek truth. It seeks alignment.

It replaces ethical reasoning with tribal sentiment, and turns accidents of geography into moral hierarchies. It makes certain lives sacred and others disposable—not through overt malice, but through structural disqualification.

In this framework, the individual is no longer a thinking self, but a performative node in a collective fable.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan