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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

— Blaise Pascal

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✓Similar Perspectives

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

— Daniel Barenboim

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

— Franz Kafka

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

— William Osler

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

— Novalis

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

— David Baldacci

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Galileo Galilei

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

— Harry Frankfurt

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

— Baltasar Gracian

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

— Bryant H. McGill