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• If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

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• The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.

  Maimonides

  Hurt, Fighting, Men

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.11, 1190.

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• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• 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

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

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• That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Mind, Negation

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Not-knowing is true knowledge.
  Presuming to know is a disease.
  First realize that you are sick;
  then you can move toward health.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Moving, Knowing

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• 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

  Spiritual, Heart, Humility

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• Oh, be wise, Thou!
  Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Wise, Knowledge

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.313, Humanities-Ebooks

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• The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Ability

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2014

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• It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Learning, Knowledge

  "Lectures on Education".

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• 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

  Christian, Self, World

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• Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

  Franz Kafka

  Down And, Childlike

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• 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

  Confused, People, Effort

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• Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.

  Cesar Millan

  Years, Goal, Wife

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• 'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.'
  'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

  Plato

  Reality, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.

  Astley Cooper

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

  A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints

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• 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

  Mind, Entity

  Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.486

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• Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like, on what God is up to in the world, and on what God is up to in your life. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. To be mistaken about him is the saddest mistake of all.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Mistake, Home

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• Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Growth, Divinity

  David Hume (1826). “The history of England: From the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution of 1688 : To which is prefixed a short account of his life, written by himself”, p.187

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• 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

  Home, Order, Giving

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.67, Syracuse University Press

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• Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Where You Are Going, Discipleship

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• 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

  Self, Way, Firsts

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Heart, Illumination

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.738, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

  William Hazlitt

  Nature, Strong, Book

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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