Quotes About Knowledge

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

A fact may blossom into a truth.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

The truth can be made up if you know how.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.