Difference Between Knowing And Understanding Quotes & Sayings

One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it--like that between the sparrow and the twig. The difference between the relationships and the elements is the same as that between written history and a catalog of events. — Barry Lopez

Just as there is a difference between playing a musical piece well and making music, there is a difference between knowing about regular expressions and really understanding them. — Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

There is a big difference between knowing and understanding. If I had a choice of being remembered as a knowledgeable or an understanding man,give me understanding... hands down. RW — Rob Wood

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