Quotes About Knowledge

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

By doubting we come at truth.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

People don't want to know the truth.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

No one is entitled to the truth.