Quotes About Knowledge

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

We are free to yield to truth.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

The experiences of life teach truth.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.