Quotes About Knowledge

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.