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Quotes About Knowledge

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.
~ Bobby Hull
Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.
~ Leo Szilard
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history
~ Michel Foucault
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
~ Herodotus
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
~ Albert Pike
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
~ Harriet Martineau
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
~ Susan Jacoby
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
~ Alexander Hamilton
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
~ Alexis Carrel
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.
~ Augustine of Hippo
How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
~ Neil Peart
Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.
~ Max Born
There is no religion higher than Truth.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
~ William Shakespeare
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
~ Richard P. Feynman
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
~ Jacques Barzun
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
~ Niels Bohr
The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Truth is the first of jewels.
~ Margaret Fuller
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
~ Soren Kierkegaard