Plato Quotes

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

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.

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

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

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

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

Reality is an acquired taste.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.