Quotes About Comprehension

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.