Joseph Conrad Quotes

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

To know is to control.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

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

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

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

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

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

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

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

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

From one learn all.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

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

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I believe in order to understand