
“To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.”
“To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.”
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 311
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Source: The Economics of Welfare (1920), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 1
“Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.”
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol. 4, p. 418
Regarding the Qur'an
“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”
Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
Bombay, March 1966
Alternative translation: "Lord Rama was an incarnation of God who possessed 14 types of divine power. Lord Krishna was an incarnation of God who possessed 26 types of divine power. But I am fully perfect and the master of all the 64 divine powers."
This alternative translation, very different from the original Hindi, appeared in a book named Satgurudev (1970). It has been used by several scholars (Messer, Glock and Bellah; Reender Kranenborg) to position Hans Ji Maharaj as claiming to be more powerful than Krishna.
Source: Gupta, Mahendra. Hans Puran, (1969) New Delhi