Real Knowledge Quotes

• 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

  Real, Knowledge, Values

  "The Miscellaneous Works".

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

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

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Hippocrates

  Father, Ignorance, Medicine

  The Canon Law IV

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Real, Knowledge, Principles

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

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• 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

  Real, Knowledge, Science

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

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• 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

  Real, Creativity, Expression

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.11, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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

  Witty, Religious, Real

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

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• 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

  Real, Intellectual, Intelligence

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

  Alfred Rupert Hall

  Real, Esoteric, Grain

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• 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

  Real, Cheater, Next Day

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

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• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  Edith Hamilton

  Real, Writing, People

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

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• All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts; it is equally true that facts can not be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.

  Auguste Comte

  Real, Science, Would Be

  "Positive Philosophy".

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• 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

  Real, Knowledge, Science

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

  Penn Jillette

  Real, Opposites, Action

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

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• 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

  Real, Drawing, Water

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

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• 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

  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• 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

  Real, Knowledge, Progress

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

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• 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

  Real, World, Fields

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

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• 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

  Real, Looks, Common

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

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