Attain Knowledge Quotes

#1. What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#2. When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

Rudolf Steiner

#3. A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

George Gurdjieff

#4. You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbie Hancock

#5. What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Elie Wiesel

#6. To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu

Richard Koch

#7. If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. 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.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#10. Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

William Alexander

#11. The ultimate purpose of life is peace and happiness. You attain it through service, care, and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#12. But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

Plato

#13. If knowledge were located in the Pleiades (a constellation of stars), the Persians would surely attain it

Anonymous

#14. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

#15. Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.

Mary B. Morrison

#16. Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#17. We can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

Frank Sheed

#18. When a man's trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn't leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self!

Dada Bhagwan

#19. The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization).

Dada Bhagwan

#22. It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#23. The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.

Violette Nakhjavani

#24. But you and I - " he brushes the collar of the gown aside - "are students of knowledge. We believe in careful practice to attain perfection.

Rae Carson

#25. I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! - The Narrator.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#26. The purpose of life should be to attain happiness by serving humanity with love and utmost sincerity.

Debasish Mridha

#27. You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.

Debasish Mridha

#28. In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. 'Gnani' has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the 'Gnani's' grace.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.

Molly Friedenfeld

#30. A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#31. No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

Giles Of Assisi

#32. When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Confucius

#33. To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Aristotle.

#34. I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.

Malcolm Goodwin

#35. Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

Ramakrishna

#36. Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.

Rene Descartes

#37. The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#38. And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Venerable Bede

#39. A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

Muhammad Yunus

#40. Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

Caleb Ricketts

#41. If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.

Albert Einstein

#42. 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

#43. Let me love; I will be kind.
Let me seek; I will find.
Let me try; I will attain.
Let me go; I will come again.

Debasish Mridha

#44. He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of the intellect, but of direct experience.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#45. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God
a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#46. ...[I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy with which you have prepared yourself to understand that object in itself[.]

Socrates

#47. Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. 16, July 1763.

Samuel Johnson

#48. If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!

Dada Bhagwan

#49. In trying to practice religion, eighty percent of people turn cheats and about fifteen percent go mad; only the remaining five percent attain the immediate knowledge of the infinite Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

#50. 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

#51. Every human desires peace and happiness, but only a few have the goal to attain those.

Debasish Mridha

#52. Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'.

Dada Bhagwan

#53. If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

John Cassian