Quotes About Knowledge

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

See now the power of truth.

There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.