112. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind.
It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate.
113. Words can only give you the idea and the idea is not the experience.
114. It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness – your own or another's.
115. There is no reality in ideas.
116. As long as you have all sorts of ideas about yourself you know yourself through the mist of these ideas; to know yourself as you are,
give up all ideas.
The above Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.