Carolyn Porco Quotes

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

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

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

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

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

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.