Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Science is nothing but perception.

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

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

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

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

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

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

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

There are many levels of truth.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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.