Worldly Knowledge Quotes

#1. Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is understood through the intellect (buddhi). Knowledge of that which is beyond the world (alaukik gnan) cannot be understood through the intellect. That is understood through 'Gnan' [Knowledge of the Real Self].

Dada Bhagwan

#2. So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

Ramakrishna

#3. A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti).

Dada Bhagwan

#5. As long as one is the doer of the actions, there is agnan [all other knowledge other than one's own true self, wordly knowledge]. Agnan is the cause for the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for 'Knowledge' is a state free of all attachments (vitragta).

Dada Bhagwan

#7. If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.

Toni Braxton

#8. We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Robert Anton Wilson

#9. The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Mike Leigh

#10. There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is 'Gnan', (true) Knowledge.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.

Bobby Cannavale

#13. There are skeletons in this earth.

Corinne Duyvis

#14. One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. Where there is lack of 'Gnan' (Knowledge and experience of the Self; real Knowledge) there is worldly existence and where there is 'Gnan' (Real Knowledge), there is no worldly existence.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#17. Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Theodor Adorno

#18. The knowledge, which makes you 'emotional', is worldly awareness. True awareness does not make you 'emotional'.

Dada Bhagwan

#19. Education can so easily unseat one's confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.

Trish Mercer

#20. Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

Courtney Barnett

#21. Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit.

Guru Nanak

#22. You wearing a thigh sheath?"
"Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.

Lisa Shearin

#23. Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya).

Dada Bhagwan

#24. I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

Patti Smith

#25. The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

Ronald H. Nash

#26. In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to 'disadjustments'.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

George Eliot

#28. Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.

Robert Benchley

#29. It is Vitaraag vignan [the Spiritual Science of the Enlightened Ones] to look at gain, and to see losses is the knowledge of worldly wanderings.

Dada Bhagwan

#30. It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

John Lyly

#31. Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

Dada Bhagwan