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• A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Needs

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• If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

  Immortal Technique

  Self, Dignity, Lost

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Book, Order, Names

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Common Sense, Substitutes, Cases

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Degrees, Diploma

  "History of England". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1960.

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• True knowledge comes only through suffering.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Adversity, Suffering

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• True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Found, Orthodox

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.169, Paulist Press

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• True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

  Isaiah Berlin

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• True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

  Albert Einstein

  Deep Understanding, Understanding, Topics

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

  Confucius

  Knows, Limitation

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• The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.

  Meister Eckhart

  Real, Believe, Men

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• True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Real, Views

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.361, Baruch Spinoza

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• All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Mind, Democracy

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.31, Anchor

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• You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

  John Buchan

  Believe, Secret, Wealth

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1672, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The door of true knowledge will opento the light

  Eleazar

  Light, Doors

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• True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Hands, Synthesis

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• Wisdom is the ability to read between the lines, listen out for messages that the universe gives us. I've been taught that that is true knowledge and that is completely different to the way we are programmed to learn. We are trained to be able to put the right answer with the right question. We don't really have to know the answer.

  Speech Debelle

  Giving, Different, Ability

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Spring, Ocean, Water

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• The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Connections, Findings

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Teaching, Doe, Precise

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• True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Giving, Moral Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.145, Rajpal & Sons

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• If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

  Jennifer Stone

  Knowledge, Reality, People

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

  John Dryden

  Art, Giving, Painting

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.332

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• On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Journey

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