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Seeking the truth6 quotes
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found. — Allan Bloom · 1987We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw · 1891Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. — Nadine Gordimer · 1963And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace · 14 BCThe peculiar evil of silencing the expression of opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — John Stuart Mill · 1859
Truth3 quotes
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. — Nadine Gordimer · 1963And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace · 14 BC
Cognitive biases1 quote
We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw · 1891
Community1 quote
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found. — Allan Bloom · 1987
Confirmation bias1 quote
We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw · 1891
Connecting with others1 quote
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found. — Allan Bloom · 1987
Dissent1 quote
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — John Stuart Mill · 1859
Education1 quote
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace · 14 BC
Freedom of speech and expression1 quote
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — John Stuart Mill · 1859
Learning1 quote
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace · 14 BC
Nature of truth1 quote
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. — Nadine Gordimer · 1963