Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

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

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

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.

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it? (Kakashi)

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

I get the picture better than anybody.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

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

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

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.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.