Albert Camus Quotes

Wisdom is only found in truth.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

Ignorance never settles a question.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

The more I see, the less I know.

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

The moment you know you know you know.