There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Life is what you make of it and the steps you take, knowing and understanding it's those steps that synchronise with your… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
“There is a big difference between knowing and understanding. If I had a choice of being remembered as a knowledgeable or an… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it;… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
“The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image