Quotes About Understanding

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

There is nothing higher than reason.

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Know what you are talking about.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.