Marianne Moore Quotes

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

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

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

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

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

I like to open people's eyes.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

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

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

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.

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.