Quotes About Understanding

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.