Quotes About Knowledge

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.