Knowledge Quotes - Page 6

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

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)]

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Hell is truth known too late.

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.