Understanding is Beyond Knowing Facts

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding:
you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Charles Kettering

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Further reading: Open Minds

Knowledge is Soon Changed

Understand More, Fear Less

Listen, Really Listen to Understand

Seek the Truth