Quotes About Knowledge

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.