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Quotes About Understanding

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
~ Arnold Lobel
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
~ Nick Bostrom
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.
~ Karl Jaspers
Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.
~ Nicholas of Cusa
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
~ Helen Keller
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
~ T. S. Eliot
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
~ Nhat Hanh
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
~ Louis Nizer
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
~ Wilma Rudolph
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Information is not knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
~ Mark Twain
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
~ John Stott
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
~ Anne Truitt
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~ George Herbert
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
~ Albert Einstein
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
~ Diane Ravitch
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred
~ Peter Senge