Thiruvalluvar Quotes

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Light is the symbol of truth.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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

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

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

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.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Truths kindle light for truths.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

Jesters do often prove prophets.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.