Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

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

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

What we do not understand we do not possess.

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

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

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

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

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

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

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 know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.