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Quotes About Knowledge

The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.
~ Evariste Galois
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
~ H. L. Mencken
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
~ Leon Trotsky
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
~ Carl Jung
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
~ Ludwig Borne
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
~ Isaac Newton
Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.
~ August Kekule
Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth
~ Bob Dylan
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
~ John F. Kennedy
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
~ C.G. Jung
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
~ Alfred Russel Wallace
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.
~ Gary Zukav
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
~ Eli Siegel
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
~ Jet Li
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
~ Ben Harper
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.
~ Bhartrhari
A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
~ Max Planck
My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
~ Nikola Tesla
Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.
~ Oliver Jeffers
Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
~ Charles Lindbergh
We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
~ Walter Lippmann