Quotes About Knowledge

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

But the history of independent India has remained a field mostly untilled. If history is 'formally constituted knowledge of the past', then for the period since 1947 this knowledge practically does not exist.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

42. The colour of milk is one, the colours of the cows many, So is the nature of knowledge, observe the wise ones. Beings of various marks and attributes, Are like the cows, their realisation is the same; This is an example we should know.

Gods and goddesses, merits, demerits and their fruits, which are likewise anya (other than oneself), objects of attachment and the knowledge of those objects — all these will lead one to bondage in mighty samsara.

One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

the delusion of bondage fabricated by ignorance from time immemorial can be removed only by knowledge, and for this purpose the term 'liberation' (mukti) has been usually accepted. That is all. The fact that the characteristics of liberation are described in different ways proves that they are imaginary.

Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky.

As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep when there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.

Did you know your kinsmen before their birth that you should seek to know them after their death?

Questioner: Is intellectual knowledge enough? Maharshi: Unless intellectually known, how to practice it? Learn it intellectually first, then do not stop with that. Practise it.

A Man of wisdom is one who discusses everything other than his achievements, a Fool speaks only of his achievements"

Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!"

Not everyone who plays knows the rules and neither the One who watches the game is a novice, Grow Up!