H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Light itself is a revelation.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

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.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

I like to open people's eyes.

Truths kindle light for truths.

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

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

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

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.

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

Light is the symbol of truth.

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

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.