Quotes About Understanding

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

One suspects that the haste with which some performers and some writers brush aside the traditional-jazz renaissance reflects their understanding of the devastating effect that an insistence on the traditional values would have upon the world of modern jazz to which they belong

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that we will continue to know its contents permanently, or having mastered a discipline in the past, we assume that we control it in the present. Philosophically speaking, "to learn" is a verb with not legitimate tense.

Indeed, there are two times for most important statements or accusations: the expressive time, when we feel inwardly impelled to say or do them, and the impressive time, when they would be most helpful to their recipients. It is only in very mature and rightly beloved people that these two times regularly coincide.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong pace, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.

Burke, unlike the Mill of On Liberty, had a true understanding of the nature of men, and balanced liberty with restraint and order, which are, in truth, essential to the preservation of liberty.

Nobody knew what that sort of blather meant in the Sixties and nobody knows now.

historian C. V Wedgwood, "History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only."43

inner meaning of Holy Scripture to all who heard him. Sanctified by God

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Keep in mind that you don't need to understand the technical aspects of audio to enjoy music in your home.

All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles the old thinking.The idea, for example, that each particular erasesthe luminous clarity of a general idea.

What would you do if you were me? she said. If I were you-you, or if I were you-me? If you were me-me. If I were you-you, he said, I'd do exactly what you're doing.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.