Quotes About Understanding

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.