Raine Maida Quotes

Power is the by-product of understanding.

I believe in order to understand

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

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

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

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

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.

To know is to control.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

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.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

What I care about is maximum information.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.