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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -- Confucius
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations. -- Daniel Barenboim
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. -- Thomas Arnold
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. -- Henry Bolingbroke
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do. -- Mira Nair
First get rid of the delusion I am the body, then only will we want real knowledge. -- Swami Vivekananda
We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture. -- Margaret Thatcher
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts. -- Auguste Comte
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us. -- Francis Schaeffer
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties. -- Abraham Myerson
The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own. -- Alan Cohen
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity. -- Bruce Lee
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils. -- Charlotte Bronte
[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all. -- Richard P. Feynman
When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way. -- Carlos Barrios
The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates. -- Robert Kuttner
It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya. -- Robert Svoboda
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people. -- Blaise Pascal
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory -- Leo Tolstoy
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense. -- Penn Jillette
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. -- Edith Hamilton
I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn. -- Zac Efron
Without real exchange, you can't create knowledge. -- Ikujiro Nonaka
In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work. -- Thomas H. Davenport
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge. -- Plato
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books -- Albert Pike
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge. -- Thomas C Foster
Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge....you are god -- Benny Hinn
Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge -- Socrates
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. -- Ramana Maharshi
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The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge -- Laozi
To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge. -- Frei Otto
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them. -- Edith Hamilton
The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff. -- Alfred Rupert Hall
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!] -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. -- Idries Shah
Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge. -- Sigmund Freud
Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything. -- Ray Mears
The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. -- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. -- Henry Ford
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge. -- Charlie Munger
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. -- Edward O. Wilson
The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory. -- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science . -- Adi Da
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. -- David Suzuki
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose. -- Edward Abbey
For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. -- Mark Twain
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation. -- Boaz Lavie
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know. -- Albert Einstein
Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth -- Sunday Adelaja
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations. -- Warren Bennis
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit. -- Rudolf Steiner
Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth. -- Sunday Adelaja
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. -- Constantin Stanislavski
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature. -- Hermann Hesse
I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor. -- Wayne Knight
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge. -- Edward Thorndike
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge. -- Roger von Oech
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. -- Thomas Jefferson
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action. -- Richard Pascale
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom. -- Kevin Vanhoozer
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge. -- Mao Zedong
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. -- Derek Jacobi
Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself. -- Brian Tracy
We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience. -- Marcus Eremita
Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living. -- RZA
Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world. -- Oliver DeMille
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. -- Chuck Yeager
Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible. -- Sai Baba
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. -- Pat Conroy
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. -- Leo Tolstoy
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer. -- Ambrose Bierce
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common. -- Idries Shah
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement. -- Thomas Carlyle
People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds. -- Kofi Siriboe
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things. -- Anne Sullivan Macy

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