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Quotes About Understanding

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~ Clifford Stoll
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
~ Plato
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
~ C.G. Jung
The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Jean Bodin
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
~ John C. Maxwell
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
~ Albert Camus
To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.
~ Confucius
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.
~ Joseph Bruchac
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
~ Ludwig Borne
How many lessons there are and how little they are taken
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
~ Ajahn Chah
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
~ William Penn
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
~ Bob Dylan
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
~ Bertrand Russell
Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Wisdom is found only in truth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
~ Nelson Mandela
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.
~ Tom Flynn
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.
~ Huineng