Quotes About Knowledge

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)

Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.