Quotes About Understanding

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

Not if I know myself at all.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.