Quotes about Knowledge
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
— Herman Melville
I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.
— John Wooden
The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.
— Joyce Meyer
Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
God alone knows absolute Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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