Ella Maillart Quotes

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.

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

I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

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.

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

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

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

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

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

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

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.