Real Knowledge Quotes

• Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.

  Thomas Arnold

  Real, Knowledge, Values

  "The Miscellaneous Works".

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

  Hippocrates

  Father, Ignorance, Medicine

  The Canon Law IV

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• The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Real, Knowledge, Principles

  "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

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• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Creativity, Expression

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.11, Tuttle Publishing

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• I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, People, Trying

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• Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Atheist, Real, Errors

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• Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Real, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.2, Routledge

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• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  Edith Hamilton

  Real, Writing, People

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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• The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Children, Real, Teenager

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.154, North Atlantic Books

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• Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Real, Artist, Skills

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• It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya.

  Robert Svoboda

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: wildyogi.info

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• The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

  Abraham Myerson

  Real, Ignorant, Fields

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• When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Russia, Choices

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Body, Want

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Love Is, Self

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• We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, People, Understanding

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• Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Memories, Real

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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