Joseph Bruchac Quotes

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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

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

I like to read and understand.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

I like to say understanding is the power.

There is so much more to understand.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

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

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

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.

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.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Comprehension follows perception.