Quotes about true knowledge

1. A true man acts according to right and wrong, regardless of profit or loss; whether he is good or bad, regardless of success or failure; whether he considers eternity or a lifetime. ——(Ming Dynasty) Huang Zongxi

2. Time can win away our lives, but it cannot win away the laughter, our blessings, and the endless love we have left along the way. ——Xinglinzi

3. Conscience is the judge of the heart, it feels every motive that arises, its throne is the human affections, and it reigns as the king of human actions. —Shelley

4. You must not be arrogant or arrogant. ——(Qing Dynasty) Lu Longqi

5. The light which a man derives from the advice of another is purer and purer than the light which he derives from his own understanding and judgment. ——Bacon

6. A person is like a fraction, his actual talents are like the numerator, and his valuation of himself is like the denominator. The larger the denominator, the smaller the value of the fraction. ——Leo Tolstoy

7. A little knowledge makes people proud, and a wealth of knowledge makes people humble. Therefore, the hollow ears of grain proudly raise their heads to the sky, while the full ears of grain lower their heads to the earth and its mother. ——Leonardo da Vinci

8. Only those who know cause and effect can achieve true knowledge. ——Francis Bacon

9. Even if he is slow and unstoppable, even if he falls behind and fails, he will definitely achieve his goal. ——Lu Xun

10. Everything must be done in a down-to-earth manner, not in fantasy, not in vain, but in a down-to-earth manner with an attitude of seeking truth. If you study with this attitude, you can understand the truth, and if you do things with this attitude, you can achieve success. ——Li Dazhao

11. Talents and cadres are the most precious and decisive capital among all precious capitals in the world. ——Stalin

12. Momentary success is achieved at the expense of years of failure. ——Browning

13. When failure is inevitable, failure is also great. ——Whitman

14. There is reason to believe that the most famous philosophers would be very awkward in the business world, but that is because they despise business. ——Halifax

15. Rewards bring bad luck. Academic awards, character awards, medals, all the devil's creations encourage hypocrisy and freeze the spontaneous excitement of a free mind. ——Baudelaire

16. Action is the only way to knowledge. ——Bernard Shaw

17. It is impossible to learn science well by starting from hearsay, just as it is impossible to gain wisdom by starting from maxims. ——Bernard Shaw

18. There is also a kind of praise that helps others, which is the so-called "encouragement praise". Many wise ministers have used this technique on their monarchs. When they compliment someone on how they are, they are secretly telling them how they should be. ——Bacon

19. The best way to clearly understand theory is to learn from your own mistakes, "from personal painful experience." ——Engels

20. Social life is essentially practical. All mysterious things that lead theory to mysticism can be reasonably solved in people's practice and understanding of this practice. ——Marx

21. Whatever is correct in theory must be effective in practice. ——Kant

22. A good start is half the battle. ——Plato

23. The day you stop trying is the day you fail completely. ——Stansford

24. To shoot a man, shoot a horse first; to capture a thief, capture the king first. ——Du Fu

25. Think carefully, but act decisively; be generous and humble, but resist firmly. ——Colton

26. If you don’t sow in spring, it won’t grow in summer, you won’t be able to harvest in autumn, and you won’t be able to enjoy it in winter. ——Hyde

27. People's real wealth is the ability to work. ——Aesop

28. Labor creates everything, workers create everything. This is the slogan of history. ——Mendeleev

29. Boasting is the first sign of weakness, and those who are capable of great things tend to be tight-lipped. ——Cicero

30. When one of you stumbles, he does it as a stumbling block for those behind him. ——Kahlil Gibran

31. Difficult problems that cannot be solved by theory will be solved by practice. ——Feuerbach

32. To learn to swim, you must get into the water. ——Lenin

33. To never make mistakes, only to do nothing, the mistakes made by people in pursuit of living truth are much more promising than that of stale truth. ——Romain Rolland

34. Even if you know half of the truth through your own efforts, it is better than knowing the whole truth based on what others say. ——Romain Rolland

35. If you try to monopolize the truth, the truth will laugh at you. ——Romain Rolland

36． Little diamonds of truth are rare, but once mined and polished, they become durable, hard, and bright.

——Beveridge

37. Truth expressed in words is a powerful force in people's lives. ——Leo Tolstoy

38. We must stand the test of history and be prepared to accept long-term defeats. However, everything will pass away, only the truth remains. ——Leo Tolstoy

39. What matters is not the quantity of knowledge, but the quality of it. Some people know a lot but don’t know the most useful things. ——Leo Tolstoy

40. Every truth has two faces, every rule has two sides, every proverb has two applications. ——Jouber

41. Error cannot withstand failure, but truth is not afraid of failure. ——Tagore

42． Truth may sometimes dim, but it never goes out. ——Tiet Levi

43. Truth has such power that the more you try to attack it, the more your attacks enrich and prove it. ——Galileo

44. Reason flies away with its laws as a kite, and truth frees facts from their shackles. ——Tagore

45. The truth is harsh, I love this harshness, it never deceives. ——Tagore

46． Truth raises a storm against itself, and that storm scatters the seeds of truth's broadcast. ——Tagore

47. The only reliable standard of truth is eternal self-consistency. ——Irving

48. Truth does not always have a definite shape; it is enough if it is like a spirit that flies gently around us and brings harmony, if it is like a solemn and affectionate bell that rings for three days. ——Goethe

49. Truth belongs to mankind, and error belongs to the times. ——Goethe

50. The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. ——Goethe

51. Error stands to truth as sleep stands to wakefulness. When a person awakens from error, he moves toward truth with new strength. ——Goethe

52. The key is to have a heart that loves the truth and absorb the truth whenever and wherever you encounter it. ——Goethe

53. All talents must be nourished by knowledge, so that they can have the power to display their talents. ——Goethe

54. There is no thinking without knowledge, and there is no knowledge without thinking. ——Goethe

55. It is not enough for a person to master knowledge, he should be good at developing knowledge continuously. ——Goethe

56． All talents must be nourished by knowledge, so that the power of talents can be exerted. … Truly talented people will find their own way. ——Goethe

57. The truth never suffers because someone does not acknowledge it. ——Schiller

58. There is no abstract truth, truth is always concrete. ——Lenin

59. The truth is often so plain that people don't believe it. ——Levart

60. A truth held unreasonably may be more harmful than a reasonable fallacy. ——T.H. Huxley

61. The river of truth always divides into two rivers and then merges again. Islanders between the two rivers have spent their lives arguing over which direction is the mainstream. ——Cyril Connolly

62. Truth is a child of time, not of authority. ——Brecht

63. Many great truths began as blasphemies. ——Bernard Shaw

64. The pursuit and struggle for truth and knowledge is one of the highest human qualities. ——Einstein

65. Anyone who takes the truth lightly in small matters will be dishonest in big things. ——Einstein

66． Anyone who considers himself an authority in the knowledge of the truth will surely collapse in the mockery of God! ——Einstein

67． Knowledge cannot be derived from experience alone, but only from the comparison of intellectual findings with observed facts. ——Einstein

68. There are hundreds of ways to error, but only one way to truth. ——Rousseau

69. The reason why people would rather believe falsehoods than love the truth is not only that it is difficult to explore the truth, but also that falsehoods cater to some bad human natures. ——Francis Bacon

70. In the long river of human history, truth is as heavy as gold and always sinks to the bottom of the river, making it difficult to be discovered; on the contrary, falsehoods as light as cow dung float on top and spread everywhere. ——Francis Bacon

71. It is better to compare truth to flint - the harder it is struck, the more brilliantly it shines. ——Marx

72. Even when the eagle is staring at the earth, its superior gaze still maintains the ability to gaze at the sun. ——Hugo

73. Morality is the flower of truth. ——Hugo

74. Man's bounden duty is to have the courage to explore the truth. ——Copernicus

75. Throughout the ages, people's philosophical explorations have always originated from wonder at all things in nature.

——Aristotle

76. In all that I say, I seek only the truth, not simply to gain the honor of telling it, but because the truth is beneficial. ——Helvetia

77. In the hands of the devil, there will always be a place where light leaks, and the light cannot be covered. ——Lu Xun

78. An individual's life is precious, but the truth of a generation is most precious. Life was sacrificed and the truth became known to the world. This death was worth it. ——Lu Xun

79. Art should seek truth, and truth is not the depiction of evil. ——George Sand

80. The most attractive aphorisms may not be the most witty, but the most true and reasonable. ——Thoreau

81. There are no new truths, only truths that are seen but not heeded. ——Mary McCarthy

82. Those who never take back their opinions love themselves more than the truth. ——Jouber

83. The higher the goal a person pursues, the faster his talents will develop and the more beneficial he will be to society. I am convinced that this is also a truth. ——Golky

84. The truth cannot be defeated with fists. ——Golky

85． Only knowledge is power. Only knowledge can make us love people honestly, respect people's labor, and sincerely appreciate the wonderful results of uninterrupted great labor. Only knowledge can make us strong-spirited, honest, and rational people. ——Golky

86. When you see incomprehensible phenomena and feel confused, the truth may be standing quietly in front of you in a veil. ——Balzac

87. We only want to bow before the altar of truth, not before all material authority. ——Guo Moruo

88. In the face of the truth of the same faith, personal feelings must be subordinated to justice. ——Dickens

89. All truths have been said before, but if I say them from the bottom of my heart every time, it is what I say. ——José Martí

90. No one can put sunshine in his pocket, and no one can usurp truth. ——Plekhanov

91. If you don’t trust yourself, how can you trust the truth? ——Shakespeare

92. As long as a person is willing to explore deep below the surface of things, even if he himself may not see it correctly, he can clear the way for others, and even make his mistakes finally become the cause of truth. ——Bock

93. Truth's greatest friend is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her eternal companion is humility. ——Gordon

94. The pursuit of truth is more valuable than the possession of truth. ——Lessing

95. The greatest respect I can have for truth is to use it. ——Emerson

96． Truth is the eternal sun, and it is impossible for the world to delay its rising. ——Philip

97. Truth is a civilian ship, and truth is a living compass. But once it breaks away from practice, it is like a ship stuck in a quagmire, and like a compass that leaves the magnetic field. Not only can it not serve as a guide for us to move forward, but it will even stagnate. ——Nobel

98. Truth is indeed a noble word, but it is also a noble achievement. If a person's mind and emotions remain healthy, his heart will be filled with excitement. ——Hegel

99. Only by being true to the facts can we be true to the truth. ——Zhou Enlai

100. Even if we only see a glimmer of truth, we cannot let its brilliance dim. ——Li Siguang

101. As for me, I learn from nature and only love the truth. Even if it is just a shadow of the truth, it makes me feel more happy and inspired than all the fallacies that bring glory and wealth to people. I would rather run into obstacles in broad daylight with my short talent than be saved or get rich by being cautious in the dark. ——Lametri

102. The river of truth flows through the ditch of his error. ——Tagore

103． Truth is not a coin that is ready to be carried and hidden in one's pocket. ——Lessing

104. Respecting the truth is the beginning of wisdom and wisdom. ——Herzen

105. Because the truth is brilliant, as long as there is a gap, it can illuminate the entire field. ——Herzen

106. People need the truth, just like a blind man needs a guide with sight. ——Golky

107. Any researcher of the history of popular disasters can confirm that most of human disasters are caused by ignorance. ——Helvetia

108. Life should be like a candle, burning from top to bottom, always bright.

——Xiao Chunu