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  • It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

    Book   Reading   College  
    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

    Thinking   Knowing   Goal  
  • Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.

    Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.284, Penguin
  • The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

    School   Essence   Ideas  
    William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.71, Anchor
  • So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

  • Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

    Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited
  • To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .

    Prayer   Mean   Self  
  • Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.

  • It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

    Love   Life   Family  
  • My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

    Mother   Father   Class  
    "Mindfulness in the Modern World: An Interview With Jon Kabat-Zinn". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.
  • Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press
  • Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

  • here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

    Life   Wisdom   Knowledge  
    "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".
  • The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

    Mean   Knowing   Perfect  
    Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press
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