John Lennon Quotes

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

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.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.