Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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

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.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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.

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

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

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.