Quotes About Understanding

There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.

Jesus obviously does not answer many questions from you or me. Which is why apologetics is always such a questionable enterprise. Jesus just doesn't argue.

Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

God may work in a Mystery, but luckily for us, he's incapable of keeping a secret.

Kierkegaard's most remarkable and subtle observations, that life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards. I think it means you have to turn around and start walking backwards, facing the past, if the present is going to make any sense at all.

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

Todo este tiempo he creído que pensaba en profundidad, pero se trataba tan sólo de una ilusión.

Cómo queréis que sea feliz con un hombre que no me entiende? ?¿Cómo esperáis que sea feliz con una mujer que no entiende que no pueda entenderla?

La gente siempre me busca para que interprete sus sueños nocturnos. Si interpretasen también sus sueños de vigilia habría menos confusión en sus sueños nocturnos y serían capaces de entenderlos.

Cuando no penséis, cuando tan sólo améis, ya no volveréis a «intentar» comprender o amar; simplemente lo haréis.

Vos creéis saberlo todo. Merlín se echó a reír: ?Al revés. Sé que no sé nada. El Caballero miró a Merlín con recelo. Sospechaba que el mago le estaba tendiendo una trampa: ?¿Cómo podéis decir que no sabéis nada, siendo como sois tan sabio? ?Eso es lo que me hace sabio ?respondió Merlín?. Saber «nada» significa no tener que demostrar que sé «algo».

Cómo llegasteis a ser tan sabio? ?Admitiendo que no sé nada ?contestó Merlín. ?No lo entiendo ?dijo el Caballero. ?Cuando creemos que lo sabemos todo, no nos queda lugar para aprender nada más. Pero si sabemos que no sabemos nada, tenemos espacio para aprenderlo todo ?le explicó Merlín.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says it means, nothing less but nothing more.

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.