Top 100 True Knowledge Quotes
#1. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.
Rumi
#2. This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.
Reks
#3. It would be a divine injustice to allow only those people who were learned and who had the time and money to buy expensive books to have access to true knowledge.
Paulo Coelho
#4. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
Ramana Maharshi
#5. The door of true knowledge will opento the light
Eleazar
#6. Perhaps the lesson is this: Without knowledge of misery, there can be no true knowledge of joy.
Julianne MacLean
#7. Even as it surreptitiously dipped into that dimension for its own hidden judgments, judgments which it forcefully and vehemently made and then flat-out denied making. "Empirical knowledge alone is true knowledge" - and where is the empirical proof for that?
Ken Wilber
#10. True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
John Calvin
#11. Worship without 'Gnan' [True Knowledge] will give material pleasures in the world and worship accompanied by 'Gnan' [True Knowledge] is known as 'Gnan' [True Knowledge] which gives the result of moksha [ultimate liberation].
Dada Bhagwan
#12. One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
Charlie Trotter
#13. Circumstances will change but (True) Knowledge [Gnan] will not change.
Dada Bhagwan
#14. To see from all the "view points"; is called 'Gnan' [True Knowledge].
Dada Bhagwan
#15. Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.
Dada Bhagwan
#16. Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
Lao-Tzu
#17. Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.
Samael Aun Weor
#18. True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
Albert Einstein
#20. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. The true knowledge of God is not only to know him as the maker of the world, but also to be persuaded that the world is directed by him, and further to know the nature of that direction. He
John Calvin
#22. Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have opinions about things that belong to the world of the senses, tangible things. We can only have true knowledge if things that can be understood with our reason.
Jostein Gaarder
#24. If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.
Immortal Technique
#25. Real knowledge, true knowledge, comes from knowing why.
Thomas Lewis
#26. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.
Ramakrishna
#27. True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.
Hugh Nibley
#28. The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#29. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#30. Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
John Dryden
#31. True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.
Luc Ferry
#32. A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Hale White
#33. The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith ...
Meister Eckhart
#35. The only really leisured people are those who devote time to acquiring true knowledge rather than trivia.
Seneca.
#36. The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is.
The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.
Neil T. Anderson
#37. Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action
T. Haque
#38. All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.
Joseph Campbell
#39. True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.
Sai Baba
#40. True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility ... Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.
Mark Batterson
#41. Gnan' [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one's own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.
Dada Bhagwan
#42. Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Plato
#43. A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity.
Maximus The Confessor
#44. True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
Sri Aurobindo
#45. Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
David Hume
#46. Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
Henry Ward Beecher
#47. True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
Ameen Rihani
#48. There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is 'Gnan', (true) Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#51. Your belief without logical evidence & true knowledge is nothing but primitive superstition.
Md. Mujib Ullah
#52. All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to
Karl Ove Knausgard
#53. Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'.
Dada Bhagwan
#54. 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
#55. Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him
which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.
George Eliot
#57. True knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.
John Calvin
#58. true knowledge is the ability to discern the end in the beginning, to understand the end result of present action.
John S. Hatcher
#59. True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
Baruch Spinoza
#60. True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.
John Cassian
#61. The person who judges you without getting to know you has revealed nothing about you but exposes everything about himself to the world. The prudent one knows that true knowledge is not born out of ignorance but a desire to know before casting judgement.
Crystal Evans
#62. True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
David Mitchell
#63. Union with [True] Knowledge is 'Principle' [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is 'non principle' [absence of principle].
Dada Bhagwan
#64. We can never have Knowledge (Gnan) without worship (bhakti). Such knowledge would be considered shushka-gnan [unproductive knowledge]. It cannot be considered True Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#66. The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.
Paulo Freire
#67. True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.
Confucius
#68. That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
Ramakrishna
#69. There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is 'egoism' and where there is Gnan, there is no 'egoism'.
Dada Bhagwan
#70. You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
John Buchan
#71. The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
Ralph Cudworth
#72. Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.
John Stott
#73. Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. To say that science is the measure of all true knowledge is not a scientific truth but a philosophic claim about science. It's scientism posing as science.
Scott Klusendorf
#76. It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood.
The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss.
Patrick Rothfuss
#77. True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#78. 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
#79. To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Confucius
#80. True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
Isaiah Berlin
#81. It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
Francis Bacon
#82. On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
Ramakrishna
#84. There is much reading material that is available which is either time-wasting or corrupting. The best yardstick to use in discerning the worth of true knowledge and learning is to go first and foremost to the words of the Lord's prophets.
Ezra Taft Benson
#85. Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
G. M. Trevelyan
#86. Without making the actual attempt, without trial and strife, there can be no true knowledge, no progress, no high achievement, and no legend.
Brendon Burchard
#87. I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
George Whitefield
#88. One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
Gautama Buddha
#89. What is considered [True] Knowledge? There should be solution from all sides, there should be no contradiction. It is a non-contradicting principle when a spoken sentence will be the same even after fifty years; there will be no contradictions.
Dada Bhagwan
#90. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann
#91. [Parker J.] Palmer points out that knowledge today is driven by two motives, curiosity and control. Curiosity gives us pure science, and control gives us technology. Then he asserts that there is a third component that is regularly disregarded but essential to true knowledge--compassion, or love.
Albert Greene
#92. The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.
Daniel H. Wilson
#93. To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#94. Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
Dorothea Dix
#95. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
#96. You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
Boethius
#97. There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
Franz Kafka
#98. True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna
#100. All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Maria Monk
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