Quotes About Knowledge

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.