Great Throughts Treasury

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Frances Wright, known as Fanny Wright

I am not going to question your opinions. I am not going to meddle with your belief. I am not going to dictate to you mine. All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Belief | Faith | Nature | Question | Reason | Search | Understand |

Charles Bradlaugh

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.

Abuse | Better | Day | Discovery | Free speech | Life | Life | People | Search | Speech | Truth | Discovery |

Albert Einstein

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Duty | Right | Search | Truth |

Albert Einstein

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Search | Truth |

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow whatever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Knowledge | Mind | Search | Value |

Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Happy | Life | Life | Meaning | Search | Will | Happiness |

Alexis Carrel

The search for God is, indeed, an entirely personal undertaking. By the exercise of the normal activities of his consciousness, man may endeavor to reach an invisible reality both immanent in and transcending the material world. thus, he throws himself into the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

Adventure | Consciousness | God | Man | Reality | Search | World | God |