Casey Stengel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

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.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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.

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

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

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

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.