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Quotes About Knowledge

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
~ Austin O'Malley
The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
~ John Piper
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
~ Saint Augustine
Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.
~ Charles Augustus Briggs
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
~ Walker Percy
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
~ Blaise Pascal
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
~ Lily Tomlin
It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
~ Stephen Covey
Learning the truth has become my life's love.
~ Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
~ Roger Ascham
Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
~ Anthony Marais, The Cure
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
Belief made no difference to the truth.
~ Diane Duane, Deep Wizardry
Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.
~ Robin Hobb
The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.
~ John H. Lienhard
What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.
~ William Sargant
The key holds the truth
~ Libba Bray