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 2. A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

 3. A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

 4. All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

 5. All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a know- ledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

 6. All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know I know, I know the less.

 7. Amongst all things, knowledge, they say, is truly the best thing; from its not being liable ever to be stolen, from its not being purchasable, and from its being imperishable.

 8. As the blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.

 9. At the outset, the man does not comprehend the nature of prevailing forces nor does he perceive them as a connected whole. This superficial view is acceptable for the masses, but the superior man should know better.

10. Because the Father of all things consists of Life and Light, where of man is made. If, therefore, a man shall learn and understand the nature of Life and Light, then he shall pass into the eternity of Life and Light.

11. Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.

12. Better know nothing than half-know many things.

13. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

14. But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

15. By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is mightier than a strong man; and a man of knowledge than he who has strength.

16. Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

17. For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

18. Get wisdom:and with all thy getting get understanding.

19. He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

20. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

21. He who knows one thing, knows all things; and he who knows all things, knows one thing. He who is careless in all respects, is in danger; he who is not careless in all respects, is free from danger.

22. How can the outpouring of the divine essence flowing out of the essence give you the experience of the essence?...Henceforth there is no need for proof in order to grasp thy reality.

23. I had six honest serving men - They taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What and When - and Why and How and Who.

24. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

25. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

26. If you love knowledge, you will be a master of knowledge. What you have come to know, pursue by exercise, what you have not learned, seek to add to your knowledge, for it is as reprehensible to hear a profitable saying and not grasp it as to be offered a good gift by one's friend and not accept it. Believe that many precepts are better than much wealth, for wealth quickly fails us, but precepts abide through all time.

27. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing where with we fly to heaven.

28. In order to contract, It is necessary first to expand. In order to weaken, It is necessary first to strengthen. In order to destroy, It is necessary first to promote. In order to grasp, It is necessary first to give. This is called subtle light. The weak and the tender overcome the hard and the strong.

29. Indeed, the whole world is imagination, while He is the Real in Reality. Whoever understand this knows all the secrets of the Spiritual Path.

30. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

31. Instinct is the nose of the mind.

32. Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

33. It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

34. It is well for one to know more than he says.

35. Just as rain exists in the clouds, butter in milk, fragrance in flowers, so also God is hidden in all these names and forms.

36. Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer."

37. Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

38. Know thyself.

39. Knowledge - The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

40. Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

41. Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being. Understanding is the resultant of knowledge and being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.

42. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

43. Knowledge is an infinite series of images in the memory. Understanding, which penetrates into their significance, is the power to perceive their essence and interrelationship.

44. Knowledge is comfortable and a necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, but if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

45. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

46. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

47. Knowledge is the antidote to fear.

48. Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

49. Learned men delight in knowledge; the ignorant do not. Honey bees resort to flowers; not so the fly.

50. Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

51. Mark well how varied are aspects of the immovable one, And know that the first reality is immovable; Only when this insight is attained, The true working of suchness is understood.

52. Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

53. Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable.

54. Not to know what happened before one was born is always tobe a child.

55. Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

56. One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

57. One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.

58. Only by undivided devotional service can The Eternal be understood and seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of eternal understanding.

59. Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

60. Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

61. Scrutinize the mystery underlying all things. Seek in higher dimensions of understanding a meaning behind all our sufferings. Unmask what appears to be the caprice of human destiny - How we long to become that which we hardly believe we are!

62. Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

63. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.

64. That is indeed twofold knowledge, which profits alike by the folly of the foolish, and the wisdom of the wise. It is both a shield and a sword; it borrows its security from the darkness, and its confidence from the light.

65. That jewel knowledge is great riches, which is not plundered by kinsmen, nor carried off by thieves, nor decreased by giving.

66. The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.

67. The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

68. The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

69. The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

70. The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, toenable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

71. The instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than its wisest men.

72. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

73. The light of the understanding- humility kindleth and pride covereth.

74. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

75. The noumenal is the real, the phenomenal, the reflection, and the wise man seeks the former rather than the latter.

76. The tree of knowledge is not that of life.

77. The Valley Spirit never dies. It is called the Mysterious Female. And the doorway of the Mysterious Female Is the base from which Heaven and Earth spring. It is there within us all the time. Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry.

78. The word knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

79. There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

80. There is hardly any place or any company where you may notgain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows someone thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

81. There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

82. This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

83. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

84. To know all things is not permitted.

85. To know is not to know, unless someone else has known that I know.

86. To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

87. To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

88. True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

89. Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear.

90. We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.

91. We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

92. What we do not understand we do not possess.

93. Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

94. When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

95. When there is an increase in the mode of ignorance, madness, illusion, inertia and darkness are manifested.

96. When we begin to understand we grow polite, happy, ingenuous.

97. When you know a thing, hold that you know it; when you know not a thing, allow that you know it not; this is knowledge.

98. Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.