Knowledge And Understanding Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor, Frank Herbert, Sebastian Coe, Soren Kierkegaard, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Viktor Schauberger and many others.
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I’d feared.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.
It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men’s lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made ‘knowledge and understanding’ the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress… it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.
When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won’t have to ask anyone to give it to you.
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn’t that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
