Real Knowledge Quotes:

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

- Thomas Arnold

topic: Real, Knowledge, Real Knowledge

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

source: "The Miscellaneous Works".

topic: Real, Knowledge, Real Knowledge

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

- Socrates

topic: Real, Real Knowledge

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

- Daniel J. Boorstin

topic: Inspiring, Education, Wisdom, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge And Learning

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life Is Complicated, Making A Living

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

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

topic: Wisdom, Attitude, Crazy, Live And Learn, Knowledge And Wisdom

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Clever, Inspirational Goal Setting, Adjustment

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Real, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge And Understanding

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, My Life Is Good, Meaningful Life

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

- Hippocrates

topic: Father, Ignorance, Opinion, Knowledge And Ignorance, Real Knowledge

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

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

topic: Real, Firsts, Taught, Unlearn, Real Knowledge

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

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

topic: Real, Knowledge, Science, Real Knowledge

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

topic: Real, Creativity, Expression, Personal Expression, Real Knowledge

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

- Charlie Munger

topic: Real, People, Trying, Real Knowledge

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Atheist, Real, Errors, Real Knowledge

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

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

topic: Philosophy, Real, Self, Real Knowledge

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

- Edith Hamilton

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

topic: Real, Book, People, Real Knowledge

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

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

topic: Children, Real, Teenager, Real Knowledge

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

topic: Real, Artist, Editing, Real Artists, Real Knowledge

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

source: Source: wildyogi.info

topic: Real, Thinking, People, Real Knowledge

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

topic: Real, Ignorant, Fields, Real Knowledge

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

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Real, Russia, Choices, Western World, Real Knowledge

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

- Swami Vivekananda

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

topic: Real, Body, Want, Real Knowledge

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

topic: Real, Love Is, Self, Pure Bliss, Real Knowledge

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

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Real, People, Understanding, Knowledge And Understanding, Real Knowledge

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

topic: Inspirational, Memories, Real, Real Knowledge

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.164

topic: Real, Drawing, Water, Real Knowledge

A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

- John Robert Seeley

topic: Real, Book, Knowledge, Real Knowledge

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 366), 1895.

topic: Real, Knowledge, Progress, Forerunners, Real Knowledge

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

- Idries Shah

source: Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd

topic: Real, Looks, Common, Common Knowledge, Real Knowledge

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

topic: Witty, Religious, Real, Religious Life, Plain English

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.40, Variocity

topic: Real, World, Fields, Expanse, Real Knowledge

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

- Penn Jillette

source: "Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing?" by Penn Jillette, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2009.

topic: Real, Opposites, Action, Real Knowledge

Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen

- Bel Kaufman

source: Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.381, Open Road Media

topic: Real, Cheater, Cards, Memorizing, Real Knowledge

It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.

- Jean-Andre Deluc

topic: Real, Knowledge, Moments, Exactness, Real Knowledge

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

- Auguste Comte

source: Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27

topic: Real, Atheism, Facts, Real Knowledge

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Real, Intellectual, Needs, Real Knowledge

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

- Alfred Rupert Hall

topic: Real, Esoteric, Grain, Concealed, Real Knowledge

In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.382, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Strong, Kings, Real, Real Knowledge

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

- Ivanka Trump

source: "Business empress, now super-surrogate: Can Ivanka Trump be dad’s deal-closer?" by Jennifer G. Hickey, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2016.

topic: Mother, Jobs, Father, Real Knowledge, Best Person

People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.

- Kofi Siriboe

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Real, People, Mind, Real Knowledge

The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Spiritual, Real, Honor, Spiritual Beings, Real Knowledge

The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work. Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe… They have no knowledge in that area. Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Real, Mean, Technology, Food Production, Real Knowledge

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

- Daniel Barenboim

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2012.

topic: Real, Essence, Manifestation, Real Knowledge

... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Growing Up, Real, Flames, Flicker, Real Knowledge

The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.

- Carlos Barrios

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Real, Greatest Wisdom, Real Knowledge

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

- Francis Schaeffer

topic: Real, Made, God Exists, Real Knowledge

When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.

- Maximus the Confessor

topic: Christian, Real, Eye, Real Knowledge, Sense Perception

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Real, Yoga, Self, Real Knowledge