Direct knowledge Quotes

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That's the best way to do it.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

But third-party decision making by surrogates for “society” offers no a priori reason to expect a closer approximation to omniscience. On the contrary, such surrogates not only lack the detailed and direct knowledge of the innumerable circumstances surrounding each of the millions of individuals whose decisions they are preempting, they lack the incentives of direct gain and loss from being right or wrong, and they have every incentive to persist in mistaken policies (from which they suffer little), rather than admit to being wrong (from which they could suffer much).

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.