If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
Knowledge Quotes
Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, John Locke, Samuel Johnson and Einstein are all near the top, which gives the page its character: mostly people who thought about how we know things, rather than about how to feel clever. Johnson gives the most useful single line, in Boswell’s Life (1791): “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Wittgenstein, in On Certainty (1969), says that knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
A lot of the quotes people look for here are flagged. “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” is credited to Socrates; see the note on the Wisdom page. “Contempt prior to investigation” is credited to Einstein, and a line about putting the Lord at every turn in the refuge of a miracle is credited to Galileo.
Generally, poem is understood and liked on the basis of the 'sphere of intellect' of an individual.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
He knew whats'ever 's to be known,
But much more than he knew would own.