Quotes About Knowledge

The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledge. You feel sort of annoying.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.