Quotes about Understanding
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
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