When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.