simplyknowledge | Quotations

One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 2.58"

Scholars who incessantly contemplate acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.

-Vedas "Yajurveda"

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

-Chanakya "Chanakya"

Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.

-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"

The ornament of the night is the moon, that of the day is the sun. The ornament of the devotee is devotion, that of devotion knowledge. The ornament of knowledge is meditation, and that of meditation is renunciation. The ornament of renunciation, says Tulsi, is pure, unalloyed peace.

-A Spiritual Leader "Sant Tulsidas"

The sun, symbolising wisdom, divine knowledge and spiritual light, which receded from you when you revelled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion and sensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and moves towards you to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance, and to infuse into you more life and energy.

-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?

-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"

The amount of knowledge that is hidden in the deep recesses of the mind... the outside world does not have even a fraction more to offer. Of course, the information updates have to be sourced from the outside world... Here, the difference between 'knowledge' and 'information' is worth understanding.

-Deep Trivedi

Scholars who incessantly contemplate on acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.

-Vedas "Yajur Veda"

All the effective knowledge is very much hidden in the deep recesses of human mind. This is the reason, be it melodies of Mozart or Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat, Krishna's Bhagavad Gita or Einstein's formula which transformed the world E=mc²; all of them have stemmed from within.

-Deep Trivedi