10 Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Knowledge

Swami Vivekananda quotes on knowledge

28. The goal of mankind is knowledge. . . . Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows,' should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

49. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

82. First get rid of the delusion 'I am the body,' then only will we want real knowledge.

99. If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

107. Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

108. Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

155. The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

171. Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

181. We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

188. Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.