Richard P. Feynman Quotes

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

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

What we do not understand we do not possess.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

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

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

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.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

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.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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.

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.

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

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

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

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

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