Knowledge in the real sense
Reading books, hearing lectures, borrowing others' opinions, [a man] limits himself in quoting them. He repeats them like a parrot and does not make them as his own. Such knowledge we term as oral knowledge. But the knowledge of that person who understands the purpose of knowledge and makes it his own by experiencing, staying on it for some time and leading a practical life, is called knowledge in the real sense.
Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010)", Chapter "Ignorance and Knowledge", pg. 69, by Lalaji Maharaj