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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. -- John Locke
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. -- Annie Besant
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known. -- Gautama Buddha
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. -- Albert Einstein
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. -- Frederick Lenz
The authority of science ... promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies.... Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality.... In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad. -- Cornel West
Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out. -- Dan Farmer
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. -- Frederick Lenz
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. -- Barry White
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. -- John F. Kennedy
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. -- George Bernard Shaw
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. -- George Henry Lewes
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. -- Thomas Malthus
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. -- Shakuntala Devi
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. -- Thomas Jefferson
Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it. -- Johnny Isakson
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -- Samuel Johnson
Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. -- Anthony Fauci
The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge. -- James E. Faust
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge. -- Geoff Mulgan
Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination. -- Susan Howatch
Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey. -- Terry Goodkind
Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge. -- Walter Benjamin
Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth -- Natalya
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. -- Carl Jung
Darkness is drowned by three lights; nature, knowledge, and truth. -- Barbra Annino
There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. -- N. K. Jemisin
The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth. -- Marty Rubin
Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it". -- Vivian Amis
Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge. -- Caleb Carr
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart. -- Don Bradley
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Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds. -- Bhartrhari
Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called. -- Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman. -- Miguel de Unamuno
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. -- Richard Whately
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies. -- John Dryden
No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth. -- Sorin Cerin
A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure. -- Richard G. Scott
Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive. -- Dave Carter
Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free. -- Jay Woodman
[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion. -- Plato
For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! -- Sophocles
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate. -- Aberjhani
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. -- Paul the Apostle
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy. -- Rajneesh
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I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret -- Lloyd Alexander
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. -- Sri Aurobindo
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. -- Richard P. Feynman
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. -- Frank Shamrock
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. -- Stephen Covey
We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. -- Michel Foucault
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. -- Francois Guizot
The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words. -- Brigham Young
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. -- Aristotle
Whatâ??s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? -- Aldous Huxley
Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge. -- Toba Beta
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole. -- John Sterling
The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. -- Ayn Rand
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient. -- Plato
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. -- Philip Gerard
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever. -- Thomas Hobbes
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. -- Thomas Jefferson
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are. -- Kurt Vonnegut
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. -- Barry Long
Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn. -- Brigham Young
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. -- Herodotus
Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth. -- Ramon Llull
There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method. -- Karl Pearson
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. -- Thomas Browne
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation. -- Horace Mann
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. -- Watchman Nee
Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth. -- David Jeremiah
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. -- Jostein Gaarder
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love... -- Thomas Merton
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth. -- William Shatner
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news. -- Michel de Montaigne
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. -- Aleister Crowley
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . . -- George Eliot
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth. -- Paul Broca
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth. -- Karl Popper
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late. -- Aristotle
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth. -- Isaac Newton
Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth. -- Fred Phelps
It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. -- Theodore Kaczynski
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. -- Karl Barth
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. -- Frederick Lenz
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)] -- Edmund Burke
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)] -- Edmund Burke
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. -- Frederick Lenz
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ... -- Rene Descartes
The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed. -- Ernest Becker
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. -- Frank Zappa
If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth. -- Khalil Gibran
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. -- Marilynne Robinson
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way. -- Laozi

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