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Quotes About Understanding

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.
~ Ernst Gombrich
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
~ Hannah More
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Information is bad for knowledge.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
in much knowledge there is also much grief.
~ Marie of Romania
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
~ Gautama Buddha
No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.
~ Hilda Doolittle
True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
~ Albert Einstein
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
~ Mason Cooley
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
~ Michael Lewis
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
~ Terence McKenna
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.
~ Confucius
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.
~ Claudia Gray
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
~ T. S. Eliot
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
~ Martin Luther
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
~ Blaise Pascal
All our knowledge begins with the senses...
~ Immanuel Kant
It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.
~ Narendra Modi
Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.
~ Caroline Pratt