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Quotes About Enlightenment

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
~ David Hume
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
~ Confucius
Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
~ Laozi
The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
~ Ramakrishna
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
Love without knowledge is demonic.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
~ Jim Butcher
Know what you do not know.
~ Gautama Buddha
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
~ Herman Melville
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
~ Laozi
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
~ John Stott
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
~ Albert Einstein
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
~ Friedrich Schiller
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
~ Ramakrishna
The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.
~ Narendra Modi