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Quotes About Realization

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo
What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.
~ John H. Johnson
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
~ Matthew Henry
The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.
~ T. Harv Eker
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
~ Thomas Mann
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
~ Meher Baba
Self knowledge is always bad news.
~ John Barth
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
~ Harold Bloom
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is structured in consciousness
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
~ Joseph Campbell
A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.
~ Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
~ Charlotte P. Gilman
When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.
~ Norvin G. McGranahan
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
~ Georges Gurdjieff
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.
~ Lin Yutang
He has to come to it on his own.
~ Justin Cronin, The Passage
For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!
~ Norman Lock, American Meteor
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action
~ T. Haque
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
Actions, not knowledge, bring result.
~ Sunday Adelaja