Eugene Ionesco Quotes

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

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

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

You can't change what you don't understand.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

The more I see, the less I know.