Wendell Berry Quotes

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

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

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

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

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

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.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

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

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.