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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Quintilian

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Jeff VanderMeer

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

Frederick Busch

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

G. I. Gurdjieff

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Mary Stewart

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

Melissa de la Cruz

If you only know something one way, then you don’t really know it.

Michael Arndt

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we’ll be better off.

Lewis Blaine Hershey

If we can’t express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don’t know much about it.

Lord Kelvin

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

Michel Foucault

What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don’t forget.

Michel Thomas

I realize then that it’s not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Gayle Forman

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

L. Ron Hubbard

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

William Gurnall

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring

J. W. N. Sullivan

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Hannah More

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

Henry James

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

Heraclitus

People who do well in life understand things that other people don’t understand.

Georges Doriot

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