“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

“Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

“Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing”

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out. Sometimes it almost seemed as if they were thinking one thing and talking about something else completely, and you didn't know what to believe: the thing they said or the thing they didn't.”

“Understanding and agreement are not the same thing.”

“To learn a thing was to know a thing; to know a thing was to understand a thing; to understand a thing was to face it without fear.”