“The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.”

—  James Clavell

François Delambre (Vincent Price) to André's son, Philippe.
The Fly (1958)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous." by James Clavell?
James Clavell photo
James Clavell55
American novelist 1921–1994

Related quotes

Karl Popper photo

“The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.”

Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science

In Search of a Better World (1984)

Barbara Kingsolver photo

“I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350. org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

"Author's note", Flight Behavior, page 599 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg photo

“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist

H 7
Variant translation: The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)

“The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.”

Phil Vischer (1966) American puppeter

Keynote speech at Christian Management Association conference in Denver, Colorado (March 2006)

A.E. Housman photo

“The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

Referring to Luke 17:33, 'Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it' (the wording used by Housman).

Jennifer Beals photo

“Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

Interview at PlanetOut.com (2004) http://jennifer-beals.com/media/press/planet_out.html.

Shunryu Suzuki photo

“But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Lecture in Los Altos, CA (1 September 1967)
Context: So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

Jack McDevitt photo

“Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.”

Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 10 (p. 85)

Seth Grahame-Smith photo

“Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”

Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Lal Bahadur Shastri photo

“The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.”

Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party

Related topics