Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.