Pilate And Truth

Pilatus interrogavit Jesum: Quid est veritas? et statim egressus est in praetorium. Fecit ergo quaestionem et non expsectavit responsium. Sic multi transitoro fervore ad Deum conversi vera bona desiderare incipiunt; sed eadem mentis mutabilitate iterum ad transitoria effusi, in mentis proposito non persistunt. Quaerunt ergo conversi per desiderium veritatis, sed non exspectans responsionem aversi per appetitum vanitatis Hugo De Sancte Victore, Miscellanea, Liber I, Tit CXXVI, Quod multi sola curiositate veritatem quaerunt Source: Migne PL 177.548a

Pilate asked Jesus: 'What is truth?' And immediately he went away to the praetorium. 1 Therefore he asked a question and did not hope for an answer. So it is that many who turn to God with a passing zeal begin to desire true goods, but then with shifting minds they fall away again to transitory things, unable to endure in the resolve of their minds. Therefore it is that those who have turned and asked with a desire for the truth, not hoping for a response, then turn away with an appetite for vanity. Hugh Of Saint Victor, Miscellanea, Book 1, Chapter 126, That many seek the truth only out of curiosity 1 Jn 18.38