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  • Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

  • True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

    Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation
  • Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

    Want   Heat   Argument  
    Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.34
  • True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.183
  • Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

    "History of England". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1960.
  • Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

    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
  • Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  • Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

  • All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

    Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.27
  • To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

  • Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.

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

    Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”
  • Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

    Love   Wise   Knowledge  
    William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.313, Humanities-Ebooks
  • True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

  • All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

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

    Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”
  • The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

    Heart   Ignorance   Men  
  • True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

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

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

    A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints
  • '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'

  • Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  • Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  • 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.

    Nature   Strong   Book  
    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics
  • True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

  • Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

    Book   Order   Names  
    George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社
  • True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

  • A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity.

  • True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

    Spring   Ocean   Water  
  • True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

    Family   Wisdom   Witty  
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