Herman Melville Quotes

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Being is the great explainer.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

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.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

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

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

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

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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.