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Quotes About Truth

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
~ Joseph Campbell
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
~ Shelley Winters
I do not believe...I know.
~ Carl Jung
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
~ Sam Harris
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
~ Horace Mann
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
~ T.S. Eliot
The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.
~ George Soros
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
~ Plato
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.
~ Samantha Shannon
The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.
~ Robert Moss
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
~ Ramakrishna
He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.
~ Arthur Guiterman
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
~ Thomas Watson
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.
~ Kofi Annan
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
~ Hafez
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Frank Herbert
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
~ Michael Lewis
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
~ T. S. Eliot