Real Knowledge Quotes

“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, Reflections

“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“To know ‘as it is’ is Real Knowledge (Gnan).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“This worldly knowledge is not called (Real) Knowledge. It is worldly knowledge. The scriptural knowledge is known as the instrumental knowledge. The knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is Real ‘Knowledge’. Scriptures themselves are the instruments and the knowledge within the scriptures is also an instrument; whereas, the ‘knowledge’ of the Self is the goal [to attain Pure Soul]!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Regardless of the amount of kashays [anger, pride, deceit, greed] the other person creates, if you win over the kashays with the Gnan [real knowledge] abundance from within, when the kashays have no effect on you from within, then it is considered as winning the world.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“A doubt that in reality, 'I am not this' has arisen regarding the knowledge of 'Who am I'. From the moment a doubt sets in about the knowledge that one has known up until now, 'we' [the Gnani Purush] Know that the time has come for that knowledge to break! The knowledge over which doubts arise, that knowledge will dissipate. Doubts can never arise over real Knowledge.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Life Without Conflict

“The best and the real knowledge is to know who, and why, and what are you, the rest is just for your living.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Knowledge separates illusions created by the mind.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“You are not truly educated if you only study what others make you study.”
― Aiyaz Uddin