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Knowledge Quotes
"Topica from Afar" discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities.Being written as you read."
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"Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration."
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"Knowledge of all living beings of the entire world is in only one Soul. But the knowledge that sees the ego and everything, as objects to be known (gneya); only that knowledge is called as the 'Knowledge'. However, that is partial Knowledge but only from that moment it is regarded as real applied focused awareness. Where there is Knowledge, the focused applied awareness may be partial or complete."
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"All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?"
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"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
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"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
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"You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?"
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"A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out."
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"The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite."
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"Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance."
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"Gnan is that which does not let kashays arise when one's pocket is picked."
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"No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author."
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"Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance."
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"Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift."
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"Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year."
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"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
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"One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed."
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"George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight."
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"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
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"The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance."
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"I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in one sentence; I am more for the one sentence. I am more for the essence. It's like how you need a truckload of roses to extract one drop of rose oil; I don't want to bother with the truckload of roses because I would rather walk away with the drop of rose oil. So in my mind, I have written two hundred books. Why? Because I have with me two hundred vials with one drop of essence in each!"
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"There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is 'Gnan', (true) Knowledge."
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"Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth."
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"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
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"I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?"
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"Dharma (function or properties) of the mind, dharma of the intellect, dharma of the chit, dharma of the ego " when all these dharma and the dharma of the Self (Soul) come into their own dharma (functions); that is known as Gnan (Knowledge of Self). And if we (self) insist upon any one's dharma; it becomes ignorance (agnan)."
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"It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand."
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"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."
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"The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more."
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"Learning is intelligence. Knowing is understanding. Practicing is wisdom. Teaching is virtue."
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"If you have the capability to stimulate your brain power by being eager to accumulate new knowledge from reading important texts in a daily basis , you will eventually be able to prove your distinguished intelligence to others by pursuing a prestigious career."
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"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."
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