Daniel Barenboim Quotes

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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

I like to open people's eyes.

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

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

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

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

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

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.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

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.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

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

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

From one learn all.