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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. -- Charles Kettering
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. -- Charles Kettering
The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding. -- Rudolf Arnheim
The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less. -- William A. Henry III
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. -- Meister Eckhart
It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research. -- Dustin Lance Black
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . . -- Edgar Cayce
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are. -- Donald Miller
A person does not lose so much own professional growth opportunity by knowing less, as much by understanding more than others on the personal level. -- Anuj Somany
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. -- Bryant H. McGill
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it? -- Trai Byers
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me. -- Aaron Ruell
I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that. -- Lily Collins
In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world. -- Lisa Randall
We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for. -- Brenda Strong
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. -- Amy Bloom
Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated. -- Robert Fripp
Knowing is never the same with understanding. -- Joshua Suya Pelicano
What is not worth understanding is not knowing. -- Caleb
Knowing is important, but understanding is essential for wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. -- Mitch Albom
...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little. -- Jan Karon
Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible. -- Irwin Kula
The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at. -- Gerald Jay Sussman
We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding. -- David Hawkins
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. -- Robert Jensen
[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways. -- Candy Chang
The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist. -- Kedar Joshi
In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. -- Ram Dass
I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have -- Louise Hay
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. -- Frank Luntz
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, itâ??s understanding the necessity of both; itâ??s engaging. Itâ??s being all in. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. -- Helen Steiner Rice
Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive. -- Patricia Churchland
You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying. -- Alice Dreger
A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being. -- Rajneesh
For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is. -- Martin Luther
Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't good for you and knowing when it's time to walk away... -- BJ Morin
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life. -- Jack Kornfield
Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect. -- Michael Fox
I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them. -- Dana Perino
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. -- Jodie Foster
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. -- Richard P. Feynman

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