A true knowledge of good and evil cannot check any emotion by virtue of being true, but only in so far as it is considered as an emotion.
An incorrect opinion is certainly different from knowing, and a correct one is not the same, for it can be engendered by the art of speech without therefore attaining the validity of true knowledge.
What, then, is true knowledge, if such be possible for man?
For the indication of this foundation of true knowledge, in its characteristic features at least, natural science has furnished us with the adequate symbols.
Character analysis opens the eyes, reveals tendencies and motives and offers true knowledge as a guide to the making of one's self truly lovable, and the finding and bringing out in the other of lovable qualities.
Oftentimes they succeed in getting into positions of comparatively mediocre executive nature, when they could assume and make a success of very much higher positions if they had a true knowledge of their vocations.
And he that hath the ideas of substances disagreeing with the real existence of things, so far wants the materials of true knowledge in his understanding, and hath instead thereof chimeras.
According to him faith is the condition of true knowledge, Fides præcedit intellectum; but it is also with him a sacred duty to raise faith to knowledge, Credo ut intelligam.
For the person and doings of Jesus Christ are only precious to them that get and retain the true knowledge of themselves, and the due reward of their sins by the law.
And the strangest thing of all is, that this same Positive science regards the scientific method as a condition of true knowledge, and that it has itself defined the elements of the scientific method.
Yudhishthira answered,--'True knowledge is that of Divinity.
Surely, sensible men like thee never suffer themselves to be deluded by acts that are opposed to true knowledge, fraught with every kind of evil, and destructive of salvation.
You will do it just as perfectly as you are in true knowledge of yourself; not otherwise.
And then, lastly, he threw open this highest way of true knowledge to all who wished to enter it, of whatever rank or caste or mental calibre they might be, not excepting the most degraded.
By true knowledgeit means knowledge acquired by man through his own intellectual faculties and through his own inner consciousness, instincts, and intuitions, unaided by any external or supernatural revelation of any kind.
But Buddhism has its own theory of enlightenment--its own idea of true knowledge, which it calls Bodhi, not Veda.
Probably before his so-called enlightenment and attainment of true knowledge, he was as firm a believer in the real existence of one Universal Spirit as the most orthodox Brahman.
When the avidyâ of a person is rooted out by the rise of true knowledge, the buddhi fails to attach itself to the puru.sa and is forever dissociated from it, and this is the state of mukti.
True knowledge therefore is that which gives such a correct and faithful representation of its object as is never afterwards found to be contradicted.
The main test of true knowledge is that it helps us to attain our purpose.
The desires, therefore, which take their origin from such emotions as these may be much stronger than that which takes its origin from a true knowledge of good and evil, and the former may be able to restrain and extinguish the latter.
In addition to mathematics, other causes also might be assigned, which it is superfluous here to enumerate, tending to make men reflect upon these universal prejudices, and leading them to a true knowledge of things.
One may ask why it is that one encounters so many doubts and difficulties before arriving at true knowledge.
Then the vicissitudes of life and the shortness of its duration, coupled with the natural indolence of man when it comes to study, completely account for the lack of true knowledgeon this most important topic.
His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.
If a man for a hundred years sacrifice month after month with a thousand, and if he but for one moment pay homage to a man whose soul is grounded (in true knowledge), better is that homage than sacrifice for a hundred years.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "true knowledge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
