John Sterling Quotes

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Science is not wisdom.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Science is but an image of the truth.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

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

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Intelligence is not a science.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

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

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