Timothy Morton Quotes

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

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

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.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

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

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

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

from one thing, know ten thousand things

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.

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

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

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

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

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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.