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Quotes About Understanding

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
~ Sun Ra
Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.
~ Anton Zeilinger
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
~ John Fowles
I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.
~ Greg Proops
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.
~ Ernest Sosa
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
~ Olive Schreiner
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
~ John Locke
If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.
~ Mason Cooley
I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.
~ Young Thug
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.
~ Vera John-Steiner
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.
~ Ron Smothermon
We should not confuse information with knowledge.
~ T. S. Eliot
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
~ Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is the use of knowledge
~ Dan Millman
All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
~ Zig Ziglar
Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
~ Vannevar Bush
Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.
~ Nelly Mazloum
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
~ Ameen Rihani
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.
~ Richard Misrach
Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.
~ James Webb Young
Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.
~ Garth Nix