Quotes About Knowledge

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.

Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.

Truth does not demand belief.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.

Here is the one truth you know for sure: there is no truth for sure.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.