“KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ARE QUITE DIFFERENT. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it.”

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Source: All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

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