Quotes About Truth

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Some people still think knowledge is power.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

for whenever men are right they are not young

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.