Quotes About Comprehension

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

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.

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

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

I take all knowledge to be my province.

Experience gives meaning to knowledge.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.