Understanding Quotes

"You can only be afraid of what you think you know" "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." "Humor can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind" "We hate the things we fear; we fear the things we do not understand" "Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place" "The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best" "The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's." "Each of us is in the world for no very long time, and should strive to comprehend at least a part of the world." "Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness." "Science is a way of thinking much more than it " "Understanding is a kind of ecstasy." "In whom there is knowledge, in him there is long life" "The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he does not understand the amount of effort it takes to produce it." "It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot." "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do and what you don't know." "Philosophy is the love of wisdom and wisdom is the knowledge of things which are divine and human "