Quotes About Knowledge

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We'll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.