Robinson Jeffers Quotes

Science is nothing but perception.

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

Our perceptions are limited. Our brains distort the truth. So do we ever know what is real? That is the mission of science. To probe deep into the massive puzzle box of nature to find its ultimate truths.

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 is an ambition which is beyond us.

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

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

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

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

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

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

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

I think science is real.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

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.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.