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Quotes About Understanding

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.
~ Jared Spool
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
~ George Santayana
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
~ William Gilbert
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
~ Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
~ Italo Calvino
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
~ Ramana Maharshi
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is
~ Richard P. Feynman
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
~ Margaret Mead
Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
~ Ed Koch
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
~ Louis L'Amour
Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.
~ John A. Van de Walle
Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
~ Richard Holbrooke
Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.
~ C. West Churchman
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
~ John Calvin
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
~ Polykarp Kusch
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
~ Zhuangzi
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
~ Joseph Joubert
If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.
~ Charlie Munger
We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
~ Frank Herbert
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
~ Tom Lehrer