“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”– E. O. Wilson Related Quotes “The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”– Albert Einstein “If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.”– Frances Wright