Quotes About Understanding

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

You don't need absolute knowledge to have reliable knowledge

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

Knowledge is almost annoying.

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

for whenever men are right they are not young

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.