Quotes About Knowledge

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.