It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef once you have that basis that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Without self knowledge without understanding the working and functions of his machine man cannot be free he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

This life that has been given to us as a gift as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it really try to recognize it is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

All our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.