Quotes About Truth

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.