Closest Quote by Alain de Botton

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

— Frederick Sommer

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

— Noam Chomsky

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

— Virginia Postrel

Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't.

— Kenneth Copeland

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

— Gerald Jay Sussman

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

— Raymond Holliwell

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

— L. Ron Hubbard

By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.

— Miyamoto Musashi

Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

— Ellen Langer

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

— Daniel H. Wilson