'Yes, Professor, knowledge and understanding are quite different. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it. New knowledge displaces the old and the result is, as it were, a pouring from the empty into the void.

Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.

“I thought you already knew everything.”
“Knowledge is not the same thing as understanding. I have a profound need to understand. Everything.”

I now knew what it was, but just because you can name a thing does not mean you understand it.

They didn't put two and two together. They didn't even know what they knew. I don't know what's the matter with people, they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way — by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Those who understand a thing are not equal to those who are fond of it, and those who are fond of it are not equal to those who delight in it.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

He knew what he imagined and what was real were not one and the same. Knowing it and coming to terms with it were not one and the same, either.

“Knowing something as knowledge” and “realizing” are different. You have to realize.

What I know and what I feel are two very different things.

Knowing you want to do something isn’t the same as knowing how to do it, and even knowing how to do something isn’t the same as actually doing it well.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.