Epistemology Quote by Samuel Beckett

“I understood it-until you tried to explain it.”

— Erin Pracht

“It dawned on me then that I didn’t understand anything half as well as I thought I did.”

— Kyra Dune

“It felt familiar. But just because it was familiar, it didn’t make it easy.”

— F.K. Preston

“...he was certain it was profound, because he didn't understand it.”

— Ayn Rand

“Maybe it’s not really a mistake if you learn from it.”

— Penelope Ward

“...you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience. Or perhaps it has no fixed and certain nature.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“Sometimes it seems like all the things I need to know, I don’t. And all the things I do know are completely wrong.”

— Anna Carey

“I found everything perfectly clear, and I really understood absolutely nothing.”

— Jean Paul Sartre

“I'm not certain that I understand all I know about that.”

— Larry Vern

“But sometimes I knew things with my heart that my mind could not explain.”

— Dean Koontz

“I knew how to make sense of complicated things, as long as they had nothing to do with me.”

— Roxane Gay

“that made the unfamiliar familiar.”

— Malcolm Gladwell