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Quotes About Knowledge

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
~ Marcel Proust
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
~ Denis Diderot
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
~ Francois Viete
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
~ Richard Selzer
It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
~ Andy Rooney
Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.
~ John Lydon
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
~ George Eliot
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
~ Peter Watts
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
~ Plato
The only atheism is the denial of truth.
~ Arthur Lynch
This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
~ Adam Clarke
Truth has to fall on fertile soil.
~ Paula D'Arcy
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
~ Boris Pasternak
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
~ John Lennon
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
~ William Penn
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
~ Tom Stoppard
There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.
~ Kevin Warwick
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.
~ Frank Shamrock
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
~ David Foster Wallace