Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

A hair divides what is false and true.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

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

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

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

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.