True Knowledge Quotes - Page 5

• If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology

  Cornelius Van Til

  Christian, Reality, Men

  81 Copy quote

• Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Self, Self Knowledge, Bases

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.34, New Society Publishers

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Children, Important, Who We Are

  Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Who I Am in Christ (Large Print 16pt)”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

  Hugh Nibley

  Knowledge, Doors, Doe

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

  Jacques Barzun

  Knowledge, Knowing, Judging

  9 Copy quote

• Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Grace

  27 Copy quote

• 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

  Book, Reading, Writing

  George Whitefield (2000). “George Whitefields's Journals”, p.27, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

  42 Copy quote

  Show source