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Quotes About Understanding

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
~ Pericles
Knowledge has a beginning but no end.
~ Geeta Iyengar
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
~ Robert Staughton Lynd
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
~ Maria Mitchell
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
~ Plato
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
~ Jane Austen
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
~ Kenneth M. Stampp
God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.
~ Jesse Duplantis
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
~ Daniel Dennett
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
~ Joseph Dunninger
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
~ Marie Stopes
The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al
~ Al-Ghazali
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~ Arthur Machen
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak
Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
~ Adrian Rogers
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
~ Charles Darwin
Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.
~ Wang Yangming
Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.
~ William H. Gray III