Quotes About Understanding

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.