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Quotes About Understanding

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
~ Democritus
It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.
~ Pete Wentz
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
~ William Hague
When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
~ Rajneesh
We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.
~ Marcelo Gleiser
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
~ William S. Burroughs
It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
~ Jane Austen
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
~ Joyce Appleby
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
~ Rocco DiSpirito
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.
~ John Bunyan
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.
~ Lev Landau
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year
~ Plato
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
~ Friedrich Schiller
They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
~ Russell Means
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
~ John Calvin
Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego
~ Albert Einstein
The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.
~ Sam Storms
The best prescription is knowledge.
~ C. Everett Koop
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
~ Horace Mann
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
~ Sigmund Freud
Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
~ Rene Descartes