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

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

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

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

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

Time discovers truth.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.