Quotes About Knowledge

The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

Brahmins were essentially transmitters and stewards of Vedic hymns and rituals, not its interpreters or owners. Over time, however, they used their exalted position to dominate society and claim entitlements. It was an irony of history that those who carried knowledge of how to expand the mind failed to expand their own minds, and chose the common path of domination instead.

Wisdom thus is always work in progress.

We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us. Bhartrihari

Our psychological birth takes place when we accept a guru who reveals to us the secrets of the Vedas.

History seeks to be everyone's truth, but is limited by available facts. More

Your reality is different from my reality, because your body is different, your filters are different, your experiences are different, your knowledge is different.

Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken.

Teachers are as clueless as students.

knowledge must outlive death, so that the next generation is more enlightened.

Certainty comes as you move away from facts.

unlike wealth, knowledge does not outlive death, hence has to be passed on to the living so that it is not lost forever.

Knowledge is like a floating log of wood that helps us stay afloat in the ocean of misery. To find the shore, we have to kick our legs and swim. No one can do that for us,' said Hanuman.

Thus, showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing. Gyana is not vi-gyana.

We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us.

knowledge of the world is imperfect based on perceptions and false information.

Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.

Bhartrihari has to confront the horror of human existence. We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us.

Knowledge is like a floating log of wood that helps us stay afloat in the ocean of misery. To find the shore, we have to kick our legs and swim. No one can do that for us.

Should the urge to find a fixed single objective truth grip you, remind yourself: Within infinite myths lies an eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred You and I, only two.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Scholarship was a hidey hole, a place where I could escape negative feelings. But as I learned more about the world, I realized that a life buried in books quite suited me.

Universal hospitality. Welcoming all to God's table. A river of justice. Or, as the prophet Isaiah envisioned long ago, "They will not hurt or destroy on my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (Isa. 11:9).

The moment that we think we know, we've lost our perspective on wisdom.