Quotes About Understanding

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.