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
By letting it go, it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try,
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about
God while one is peeling potatoes.
Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- Alan Watts
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Further reading:
Stillness
Gratitude for THIS Moment
Paradox
Stay Adaptable
