Sentence examples for a quest for truth from inspiring English sources

Certainly a quest for truth characterized the book on the Aventis Prize short list that received the most press coverage.

Mark Dendy is on a quest — for truth in his art, for acceptance of his past, for an honest confrontation of the world's ills.

One day art may once again be a quest for truth and beauty, not wealth, and Van Gogh's ear will be honoured as currency.

However, the unfortunate impression that this string of legal upsets has left is of a scrabble to bring convictions at all costs rather than a quest for truth and justice.

Animal memoirs have shown us that non-human narrators can embody great depth and humanity - from Kafka's anti-hero on a quest for truth in Investigations of a Dog to James Lever's chimpanzee story Me Cheeta.

But some scientists worry that the new study may be more of a way to delay new standards than a quest for truth.

Their motivation is not a quest for divine truth.

"The basic principle of all research, of all scholarship, is that it's a quest for the truth," Mr. Golb said.

What began as a pleasant enough exercise in low-key (if well researched) nostalgia suddenly balloons into a quest for cosmic truth.

In the romance, complex themes of love, loyalty, and personal integrity were united with a quest for spiritual truth, an amalgam that was represented in every major western European literature of the time.

From the mid-1960s Meher Baba was in seclusion, and during that period several users of recreational drugs in the United States sought him out in a quest for spiritual truth.