Echoes

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

In every systematic inquiry where there are first principles, or causes, or elements, knowledge and science result from acquiring knowledge of these.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Man knows much more than he understands.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but truth is a greater friend.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...

I would prefer inarticulate wisdom to loquacious foolishness.

These circumstances, trivial as they may seem, have their importance; since without them we could never have come to any certainty.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.