Quotes About Understanding

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Fear is where the information is.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Knowledge is never too dear.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.