Isaac Newton Quotes

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

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

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

I seek the truth.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Science is but an image of the truth.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.