Awakening Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the…

— Plato

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and…

— Socrates

“Knowledge of the non-Self (paudgalik-gnan) is called agnan (ignorance). Knowledge of the Self is called atma-gnan (realization of the soul). To attain pure knowledge…

— Dada Bhagwan

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed…

— John Dewey

“Pure Knowledge (Shuddha Gnan) is the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). Soul is a symbolic word. But one should have the ‘intuitive perception’ (vision) of…

— Dada Bhagwan

The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our…

— Deepak Chopra

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

“Through pure knowledge is Moksha (ultimate liberation), through auspicious knowledge is worldly happiness, through wrong knowledge is misery.”

— Dada Bhagwan