Lauren DeStefano Quotes

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it? (Kakashi)

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.

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

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

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

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

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

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

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.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.