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.
Mistakes are after all the foundations of truth and if a man does not know what a thing is it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge wisdom and truth.
It is not when truth is dirty but when it is shallow that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.
It is not difficult for me to have this faith for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning God.'
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you you don't have to drag it out of us.
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence his noblest function is the search for truth.
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection and extended to all possible truth.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.