Paul Eluard Quotes

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

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

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

from one thing, know ten thousand things

You can't change what you don't understand.

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

You can not hear what you do not understand.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

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

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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

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

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

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

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

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.