Quotes About Understanding

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

The middle path is the way to wisdom