Quotes about Understanding
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
— Margaret Mead
If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
— Vance Havner
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
— Aldous Huxley
Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
— Khalil Gibran
I don't believe. I know.
— Carl Jung
It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
— Albert Einstein
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.
— Mortimer Adler
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
— Henry David Thoreau