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

  Edith Hamilton

  Real, Book, People

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

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• 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

  Christian, Real, Eye

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• 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

  Teacher, Gratitude, Real

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• 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

  Strong, Kings, Real

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

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

  Daniel Barenboim

  Real, Essence, Manifestation

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

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• 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

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• ... 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

  Growing Up, Real, Flames

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• 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

  Real, Atheism, Facts

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

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• We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

  Marcus Eremita

  Forgiveness, Real, Heart

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• We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  Mira Nair

  Real, Communication, Understanding

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• [When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Thinking, Study

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• 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

  Real, Yoga, Self

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• Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

  Socrates

  Real

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