Mary E. Pearson 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.

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.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

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

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

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.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Comprehension follows perception.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

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

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.