Quotes About Understanding

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

knowledge is the best gift of pure God .

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.