David Gemmell Quotes

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

The wise speak only of what they know

There is so much more to understand.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.