knowing

is a sphere entirely opposite from being, insofar as it is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. Friedrich Nietzsche

is false understanding... not knowing is blind ignorance.

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding... not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong' Alan Watts

is not accomplished through our intellect but through our experience.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)

is not at all the same as understanding. One can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

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. (Charles F. Kettering)

is not in a settled relationship with seeing. When we see the sun set we know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. John Berger

is best viewed as a matter of quality over quantity. It is better to know well than to know much.

It is better to know well than to know much. Mishle Yehoshua

is only able to begin once we forget all our learning.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. Henry David Thoreau

is distinguished from understanding. Man knows much more than he understands.

Man knows much more than he understands. Alfred Adler

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