E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.