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Quotes About Knowledge

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
~ Confucius
It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.
~ Alistair Begg
[Science is] the literature of truth.
~ Josh Billings
The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now
~ Wilfred Grenfell
Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.
~ Ann Druyan
Truth is always a delusion.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
~ George Washington
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
~ Aristotle
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.
~ Percy Williams Bridgman
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
~ Aphra Behn
Science is but an image of the truth.
~ Francis Bacon
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
~ Bill Vaughan
Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
~ Lev Shestov
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
~ John Locke
The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
~ Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
~ Roger Bacon
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
~ Abbott Lawrence Lowell
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
~ Horace Mann
Truth is error burned up.
~ Norman O. Brown
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
~ Jules Verne