Peace Pilgrim Quotes

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

We are wiser than we know.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?" All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.