Quotes About Understanding

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?