Ancient Quote by Rollo May

“Plato (...) defined knowledge as "justified true belief". To his mind, you could only claim to know something if A) it was true; and…

— Kathryn Schulz

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren

Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have…

— Jostein Gaarder

It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always…

— Barry Long

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Discovering truth is a process that occurs over time, more fully with each idea or book that gets added to the equation. Sure, many…

— Karen Swallow Prior

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

— Igor Stravinsky

“A method to understand one's true nature is by going back in time to one’s earliest memories, the roots of one’s mind. This comprehension…

— VD

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality…

— Klaus Mann