Epictetus Quotes

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth.

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.