Quotes About Knowledge

FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

Intelligence is to provide the facts to us. The facts will usually take you to the truth. And then, when we get the truth, we have got to make the decisions and do what's best for this country.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

Truth defies simplicity.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

words can never get at the truth.

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.