--- title: "8 Soul Knowledge Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Soul Knowledge quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Soul Knowledge sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bb/dada-bhagwan-31_freedom_through-what-has-one-seen-this-akram-sci_436201.jpg" --- > [“Through what has one seen this (AKRAM) Science (stepless path to liberation)? Through pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/through-what-has-one-seen-this-akram-science-stepless-path-to/) [Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bb/dada-bhagwan-31_freedom_through-what-has-one-seen-this-akram-sci_436201.jpg) > [Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/soul-receives-from-soul-that-knowledge-therefore-not-by-book-nor-from/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/anonymous-1_book_soul-receives-from-soul-that-knowledge-t_466420.jpg) > [He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-parker-willis/he-who-binds-his-soul-to-knowledge-steals-the-key-of-heaven/) [Nathaniel Parker Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-parker-willis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/nathaniel-parker-willis-10591_heaven_he-who-binds-his-soul-to-knowledge-steal_1254941.jpg) > [Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/look-at-the-evils-of-the-world-around-you-and-protect-yourself-from/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/anonymous-1_connected_look-at-the-evils-of-the-world-around-yo_1272544.jpg) > [One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/one-should-stick-by-one-s-soul-and-by-nothing-else-in-one-s-soul-one/) [D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/195/d-h-lawrence-426_betray_one-should-stick-by-one-s-soul-and-by-no_1576947.png) > [“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/holding-as-we-do-that-while-knowledge-of-any-kind-is-a-thing-to-be/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/aristotle-78_animal-life_holding-as-we-do-that-while-knowledge-of_1588182.png) > [“The all-sustaining power of knowledge is captured in the simile of knowledge being food for the soul. Various versions of it are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-rosenthal/the-all-sustaining-power-of-knowledge-is-captured-in-the-simile-of/) [Franz Rosenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-rosenthal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/franz-rosenthal-10507_food-and-drink_the-all-sustaining-power-of-knowledge-is_2305350.jpg) > [“What happens to an evil soul once you offer her knowledge about compassion, love, life, people, moral and ethics? That is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-sacredfire/what-happens-to-an-evil-soul-once-you-offer-her-knowledge-about/) [Robin Sacredfire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-sacredfire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/robin-sacredfire-1159_compassion_what-happens-to-an-evil-soul-once-you-of_2720645.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/soul-knowledge/#itemlist", "name": "Soul Knowledge Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Through what has one seen this (AKRAM) Science (stepless path to liberation)? Through pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul). 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Lawrence", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it may, either by reason of its greater exactness or of a higher dignity and greater wonderfulness in its objects, be more honourable and precious than another, on both accounts we should naturally be led to place in the front rank the study of the soul. The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life. Our aim is to grasp and understand, first its essential nature, and secondly its properties; of these some are thought to be affections proper to the soul itself, while others are considered to attach to the animal owing to the presence of soul. To attain any knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. As the form of question which here presents itself, viz. the question 'What is it?', recurs in other fields, it might be supposed that there was some single method of inquiry applicable to all objects whose essential nature we are endeavouring to ascertain (as there *is* for incidental properties the single method of demonstration); in that case what we should have to seek for would be this unique method. But if there is no such single and general method for solving the question of essence, our task becomes still more difficult; in the case of each different subject we shall have to determine the appropriate process of investigation. If to this there be a clear answer, e.g. that the process is demonstration or division, or some other known method, many difficulties and hesitations still beset us—with what facts shall we begin the inquiry? For the facts which form the starting-points in different subjects must be different, as e.g. in the case of numbers and surfaces. First, no doubt, it is necessary to determine in which of the *summa genera* soul lies, what it *is*; is it 'a this-somewhat', a substance, or is a quale or a quantum, or some other of the remaining kinds of predicates which we have distinguished? Further, does soul belong to the class of potential existents, or is it not rather an actuality? Our answer to this question is of the greatest importance.\" ―from_On the Soul: Book I_”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/holding-as-we-do-that-while-knowledge-of-any-kind-is-a-thing-to-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/aristotle-78_animal-life_holding-as-we-do-that-while-knowledge-of_1588182.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/aristotle-78_animal-life_holding-as-we-do-that-while-knowledge-of_1588182.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/aristotle-78_animal-life_holding-as-we-do-that-while-knowledge-of_1588182.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it may…” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The all-sustaining power of knowledge is captured in the simile of knowledge being food for the soul. Various versions of it are met with in the Graeco-Arabic tradition, “Like as the body grows through food and becomes -fi rm through exercise, thus the soul grows through studying and becomes strong through patiently enduring (the hardships of ) studying.” Diogenes, it seems, was supposed to have made this statement. Someone else, apparently Theognis, is said to have already played a variation on the theme: “Knowledge is not on the level of food which suffi ces to feed two or three but cannot feed many persons. Rather, it is like light which enables many eyes to see all at the same time.” Diogenes, or, according to another version, the Church Father, Basilius, admonishes us to take the appropriate measures against harmful knowledge in the same way in which we are used to protect ourselves against harmful foods, because knowledge is the food of the soul. According to Plato, the pleasure which the soul shares with the body is that of food and drink, whereas its incorporeal pleasure is that of knowledge and wisdom. For Pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana (Balînûs), proof of the incorporeality of the soul lies in the fact that it does not partake of material nourishment. “According to the Stoics,” he reports, “Socrates said that the soul eats; however, its food is something that is not corporeal, since the food of the soul is knowledge.” Knowledge is also described by Ibn Butlân as the thing that nourishes the intellect. It is for the intellect what food is for the body, since the two supplement each other and must exist together in human beings. Ibn Taymîyah states that “the arrival of knowledge in the heart is like the arrival of food in the body. The body is aware of food and drink. In the same manner, the hearts are aware of the sciences (- ulûm) that establish themselves in them and which are their food and drink.” In the popular conception, knowledge and books have always been identifi ed as spiritual food, down to the present day.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Franz Rosenthal" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-rosenthal/the-all-sustaining-power-of-knowledge-is-captured-in-the-simile-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/franz-rosenthal-10507_food-and-drink_the-all-sustaining-power-of-knowledge-is_2305350.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/franz-rosenthal-10507_food-and-drink_the-all-sustaining-power-of-knowledge-is_2305350.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/franz-rosenthal-10507_food-and-drink_the-all-sustaining-power-of-knowledge-is_2305350.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The all-sustaining power of knowledge is captured in the simile of knowledge being food for the soul…” — Franz Rosenthal", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What happens to an evil soul once you offer her knowledge about compassion, love, life, people, moral and ethics? That is an easy question, no? 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