Quotes About Knowledge

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Truth reforms as well as informs.

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.