Understanding Knowledge Quotes

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Grant, Goddess, thy protection, And in protection, strength, And in strength, understanding, And in understanding, knowledge, And in knowledge the knowledge of justice, And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, And in that love, the love of all existences, And in the love of all existences, the love of Goddess and all goodness.

When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

We have the ability to be the ocean. And access all that infinite possibility, understanding, knowledge, awareness. Or we can get caught up in identifying ourselves as being the droplet, which cannot disconnect us literally from the ocean but does disconnect us from the awareness of the ocean, which means that we isolate our point of observation to that of the droplet. That’s when we identify with being the image in the mirror.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.