Quotes About Knowledge

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

I'd like to discover Truth - when I can latch on to something that I think is true.

That which the truth nourishes should thrive.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.

Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.