Understanding Knowledge Quotes

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

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Acceptance

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  David Icke

  Ocean, Mean, Mirrors

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Iolo Morganwg

  Justice, Religion, Spirit

  11 Copy quote

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

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

  44 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

  334 Copy quote

  Show source

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

  126 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

  271 Copy quote

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

  Frank Herbert

  Knowledge, Caring, Discovery

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.150, Penguin

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

  Albert Einstein

  Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

  1035 Copy quote

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Asimov's New guide to science”, Basic Books (AZ)

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Integrity, Knowledge

  74 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Addiction, Doe, Taught

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.194, M-y books ltd

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Skills, Gains

  Source: www.scholastic.com

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Tibor Kalman

  Children, Reality, Forever

  14 Copy quote