Authority Quote by Roger Bacon

“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

There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely…

— Roger Bacon

There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow…

— Roger Bacon

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the…

— Bertolt Brecht

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

“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

“If at some point in your life you adopt an idea or a perception as the absolute truth, you close the door of your…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it…

— Aristotle

“Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases…

— Ernst Cassirer

“truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain…

— Thomas Merton

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical…

— Friedrich Nietzsche