Mitch Albom Quotes

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.

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

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

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.

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.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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

In all your getting, get understanding.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

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

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

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

I like to say understanding is the power.

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

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

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

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough