Sue Johanson Quotes

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

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

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

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

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.