Parmenides Quotes

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

When did ignorance become a point of view?

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Knowledge is true opinion.

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

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

Science is not wisdom.