John Tillotson Quotes

I like to say understanding is the power.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

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.

Intelligence is not a science.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

In all your getting, get understanding.

Intellect is not wisdom.

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 don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

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

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

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

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

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same 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?

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Observing and understanding are two different things.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

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