Burden Quote by Ernest Becker

“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth is man-made,…

— Bertrand Russell

“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title…

— Roger Bacon

“What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human;…

— Karl R. Popper

“[T]he mind wearies easily when it strives to grapple with the Infinite, and to trace the footsteps of the Almighty as he strides from…

— H. Rider Haggard

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In the course of my intellectual life I experienced very acutely the problem of whether it isn't actually presumptuous to say that we can…

— Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict

“A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.”

— Anonymous

“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And…

— Wendell Berry

“ No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.”

— Sorin Cerin

“Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.”

— Walter Benjamin

The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself,…

— Raymond B. Fosdick

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

— Reinhold Niebuhr