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Knowledge Is Not Understanding - More to That
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One can know a lot but understand very little. Knowledge is constructed upward, while understanding is discovered inward. Both are useful, but to think that knowledge will make you happy, healthy, and wise is a fool’s endeavor. Knowledge is literal, understanding is metaphorical.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
One must seek Knowledge, but be a little wary of finding it. Perhaps excessive, but one could say the idea of possessing knowledge represents a kind of complacency. This is what Socrates meant: Once you think you know, you stop looking. You cease your wonder.
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
People who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating truth. More likely, they’re resurfacing cached thoughts and narratives. Reading popular science books or news articles is not a substitute for understanding, and may make you stupider, by filling your mind with narratives and stories that don’t represent your own synthesis.
Nabeel Qureshi • How To Understand Things
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