Quotes About Understanding

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

I don't believe. I know.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Speculation is not knowledge.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.