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Quotes About Enlightenment

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
~ Laozi
The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.
~ Kedar Joshi
Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.
~ Rajneesh
To know, is to know that you know nothing.
~ Socrates
All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
~ Alice Walker
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
~ Max Heindel
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.
~ Frederick Lenz
Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.
~ LL Cool J
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
~ Ramakrishna
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
~ Will Rogers
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
~ Frederick Lenz
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato
Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
~ Laozi
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
~ Plato, The Republic
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
~ Ezra Pound
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
~ Joseph Campbell
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.
~ Alan Watts
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti