Quotes About Knowledge

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.

Two persons die remorseful: he who possessed and enjoyed not, and he who knew but did not practise.

?çimizde ?eytan yok... ?çimizde aciz var... Tembellik var... ?radesizlik, bilgisizlik ve bunlar?n hepsinden daha korkunç bir ?ey: hakikatleri görmekten kaçmak itiyad? var...

Hiçbiri insan? insan yapan ?eyin ?ahsiyet oldu?unu, bütün ilimlerin, bütün tecrübelerin yaln?z bunu temine yarad???n? anlamam??t?r.

Bütün teessürlerimiz, inkisarlar?m?z (dü? k?r?kl?klar?m?z), hiddetlerimiz, kar??m?za ç?kan hadiselerin anla??lmad?k, beklenmedik taraflar?nad?r. Her ?eye haz?r bulunan ve kimden ne gelebilece?ini bilen bir insan? sarsmak mümkün müdür?

Araya az?c?k so?ukluk girdi mi bu ilim dedikleri namert, adam? ürkütür. Hayat ile fazla ünsiyet{34} muayyen bir ya?tan sonra insanlar? çok ?ey ö?renmekten, yani usulü dairesinde ö?renmekten uzakla?t?r?yor.

?nsanlar birbirlerini tan?man?n ne kadar güç oldu?unu bildikleri için bu zahmetli i?e te?ebbüs etmektense, körler gibi rastgele dola?may? ve ancak çarp??t?kça birbirlerinin mevcudiyetinden haberdar olmay? tercih ediyorlar.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.

An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.

Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know.

It is unfortunate that we have moved from intuition to information.

Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps.

An idiot is incapable of drawing conclusions. A mystic is unwilling to draw conclusions. The rest have glorified their conclusions as knowledge.

The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform.

It is a distorted perception if you think that just by looking through a keyhole, you have seen the world.

My blessing is may all your dreams not come true... All of your dreams are just exaggerations of what you already know.

Guru" literally means "dispeller of darkness.

Whenever the need to know any dimension of life presented itself, at that moment, the answers were always there within me. Life has always been like that for me.

The word ayur means "life span" and the word veda means "science" or "knowledge." So, Ayurveda is the science of extending the human life span. It is a system that uses external plant life and earth elements to promote health and to correct systemic irregularities. Knowledge systems like these were intended to assist those who are incapable of doing the necessary yogic practice to achieve the same ends.

The word sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.