Quotes about Knowledge
I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
— Marcus Aurelius
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
— Maya Angelou
Tell others about the truth that sets you free.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.
— Thomas Jefferson
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
— William James
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
— George Bernard Shaw