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Quotes About Knowledge

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.
~ Megan Martha White
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
~ William Whewell
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.
~ Eugene Manlove Rhodes
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
~ Eric Hoffer
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.
~ Moses Harvey
Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.
~ George S. Clason
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
~ Samuel Butler
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
~ Philip Gerard
The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.
~ William Law
The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
~ Plato
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
~ William James
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
~ Os Guinness
I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.
~ Richard Brancatisano
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
~ Karl Marx
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
~ Blaise Pascal
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.
~ Ricky Gervais
Truth does not belong to an individual.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
~ Charlotte Lennox
You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson