Quotes on Knowledge

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.