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Quotes About Understanding

Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't
~ Nicolas Steno
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.
~ Hilary of Poitiers
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
~ Mark Twain
Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).
~ James D. Watson
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
~ Oswald Chambers
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
~ Phil Collins
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.
~ Dorothy West
Knowledge is the currency of the universe.
~ Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Stop learning. Start knowing
~ Rumi
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
~ Robert Hunter
The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
~ Laozi
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
~ Philo of Alexandria
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
~ Richard Hamming
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
~ Don Herold
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
~ Werner Heisenberg
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
~ Donna Jo Napoli
Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
~ Amiri Baraka
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people
~ Doc Watson
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
~ Bill Lear
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
~ Carl Rogers
EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
~ Bulleh Shah
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
~ Izaak Walton