True Knowledge

Socrates gave no diplomas

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

True knowledge comes only

True knowledge comes only through suffering. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Knowledge does not corrupt,

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge. Elie Wiesel

The door of true

The door of true knowledge will opento the light Eleazar

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 … Read more

On your journey, remember

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

There is a down-and-outness

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it. Franz Kafka

It is rightly laid

It is rightly laid down that ‘true knowledge is knowledge by causes’. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final. Francis Bacon

Discipleship is not limited

Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours. … Read more

True knowledge without xperience

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance David Mitchell