Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
'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.'
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
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.
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.
In all your getting, get understanding.
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive
Observing and understanding are two different things.
Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.
It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.
I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.
