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Quotes About Understanding

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
~ Arthur Eddington
I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
~ Lena Horne
Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?
~ John Towner Williams
I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
~ Richie Ashburn
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
~ Norton Juster
Learning is as much an art as teaching
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
~ Democritus
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
~ Richard Saul Wurman
Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
~ Mark Twain
Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.
~ Haim Harari
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
~ Lady Gregory
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
~ Maimonides
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
~ Warren G. Bennis
The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Teaching is listening, learning is talking
~ Deborah Meier
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
~ Lewis Thomas
By ignorance the truth is known.
~ Henry Suso
The objective of education is learning, not teaching
~ Russell L. Ackoff
Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.
~ Carol S. Dweck
... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.
~ Paulo Freire
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
~ John Ray