Quotes about Understanding
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
— Leland Ryken
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
— Erica Jong
When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
— Max Lucado
One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
— RC Sproul
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
— Gordon Hinckley
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
— George Eliot
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
— George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.
— JC Ryle
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
— Samuel Johnson
The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
— Albert Einstein