“Search for the Grain of Truth in Other Opinions”
Title of Lesson 52
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff (1997)
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“The search for truth…It's not for the faint-hearted.”
Det. Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Source: 1920s, "Picasso Speaks" (1923), p. 315.
“The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”
Source: Anna Karenina
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
Variant: There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.
“The search for necessary truths, truths that are not only true, but they couldn’t have been false.”
In the Veery journal interview in 1996, in reply to the question of "What is the most rewarding aspect of philosophy?" presented by Veery editor Steven Vita, later reprinted in 1997 in the Austin American-Statesman and then quoted from in The New York Times obituary entitled “Charles Hartshorne, Theologian, Is Dead; Proponent of an Activist God Was 103.”
“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”
Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
“All these efforts in the search for truth tend to lead it”
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)
Context: All these efforts in the search for truth tend to lead it [the human mind] back continually to the vast intelligence... but from which it will always remain infinitely removed. This tendency peculiar to the human race is that which renders it superior... and their progress in this respect distinguishes nations and ages and constitutes their true glory.<!--pp.4-5