Quotes About Understanding

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.