Thomas Paine Quotes

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.

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.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Man knows much more than he understands.

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.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Comprehension follows perception.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

I believe in order to understand

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

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.

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.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

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

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

You cannot be known Better than I know you.