Quotes About Comprehension

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.