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Quotes About Understanding

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
~ Pythagoras
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
~ Socrates
Now I know what the atom looks like.
~ Ernest Rutherford
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
~ Manly Hall
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
~ Vernon Cooper
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
~ Robert E. Lee
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
~ Ramana Maharshi
He who understands the wise is wise already.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
~ Boonaa Mohammed
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!
~ Ali Sina
O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me. From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me. My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.
~ Busiri
Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.
~ Robert Thurman
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.
~ Eliza R. Snow
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
~ Charles Kettering
If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.
~ Matt Chandler
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
~ Herbie Hancock
Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.
~ Konrad Adenauer
We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.
~ Anneli Rufus