Quotes About Knowledge

We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Understanding is the key to true knowledge

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

Truth cannot be imparted, it must be inflicted.