Quotes About Truth

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

I don't believe. I know.

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Speculation is not knowledge.