Isaiah Berlin Quotes

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

What I care about is maximum information.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

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.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

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.

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

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Time discovers truth.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.