Gene Wolfe Quotes

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

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

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

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

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.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

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

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

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

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

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