Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

People take reality for granted.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

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.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.