Quotes About Understanding

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

The most amazing thing about the world is that we understand it.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

The important thing is never to stop questioning.

To know the secrets of Life, we must first become aware of their existence.

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Love is the answer

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.

True genius never says he know what he is doing

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I have no doubt that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself all at once. We see him only the way a louse that sits upon him would.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself.

La teoria è quando si sa tutto e niente funziona. La pratica è quando tutto funziona e nessuno sa il perché. Noi abbiamo messo insieme la teoria e la pratica: non c'è niente che funzioni... e nessuno sa il perché!

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Per perdere la testa, bisogna averne una...

ours is the first era in which it has been possible for people of different nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.