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.

知之者不如好之者，好之者不如樂之者。”
“Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

But understand them, people say. And one does. But sometimes understanding is not comforting or flattering to the understood.

It is not praised if you are the only one to understand what you speak
interesting is the situation when you speak and the others understand.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

—Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. … I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.