There is a great difference between knowing and understanding:
you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Charles Kettering
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Further reading: Open Minds
Knowledge is Soon Changed
Understand More, Fear Less
Listen, Really Listen to Understand
Seek the Truth
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