“[…]a person stops searching for information and knowledge of one’s self, ignorance sets in.”

“Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.”

“But for those in whom that ignorance of Self is by knowledge destroyed, their knowledge like the sun illumines That Supreme.”

“Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more— also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.”

“One should hardly have to tell academicians that information is a valuable resource: knowledge is power. And yet this occupies a slum dwelling in the town of economics. Mostly it is ignored.”

“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

“If we seek… nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception.”

“The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.”

“People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millennia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.”

“Knowledge accumulates over time; it’s not just one person or one set of time but over many hundreds of years. That gives me hope.”