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Quotes About Knowledge

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.
~ Peter Boghossian
Tell others about the truth that sets you free.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash.
~ Pope Francis
Nothing is higher than the love of truth.
~ Prudentius
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.
~ Orson Scott Card
Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.
~ Rajneesh
Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.
~ Rajneesh
Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.
~ Rajneesh
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
~ Ray Bradbury
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
~ Raymond Chandler
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.
~ Richard Dawkins
The truth will only be told over a career.
~ Richard Linklater
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
~ Richard Whately
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
~ Richard Whately
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.
~ Rob Nilsson
Our goal is to give all Americans front-door access to the truth.
~ Robert C. Maynard
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.
~ Rollo May
One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.
~ Samael Aun Weor