Quotes About Knowledge

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

Once you know the truth, it's always obvious

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.