Voltaire Quotes

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

… knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul

History some truths contains, which well may serve for lessons.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Morality, too, is a question of time.