Quotes About Understanding

The mystical experience is doubly valuable; it is valuable because it gives the experiencer a better understanding of himself and the world and because it may help him to lead a less self-centered and more creative life.

In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions.

Or consider another field where one can use games to implant an understanding of basic principles. All scientific thinking is in terms of probability. The old eternal verities are merely a high degree of likeliness; the immutable laws of nature are just statistical averages. How does one get these profoundly unobvious notions into children's heads? By playing roulette with them, by spinning coins and drawing lots. By teaching them all kinds of games with cards and boards and dice.

Aldous Huxley

La felicidad es un patrón muy duro, especialmente la felicidad de los demás.

Experience teaches only the teachable

Love makes you accept the world; it puts an end to criticism.

Çünkü zaten iÅŸlerini zekice yapacaklarsa genel bir fikirleri olmak zorundayd?, ancak toplumun iyi ve mutlu üyeleri olacaklarsa ne kadar az bilirlerse o kadar iyi olurdu.

Unitive knowledge of God is possible only to those who 'have ceased to cherish opinions' even opinions that are as true as it is possible for verbalized abstractions to be.

W]ords are not the same as things and [...] a knowledge of words about facts is in no sense equivalent to a direct and immediate apprehension of the facts themselves.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.

Threequarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience. To

There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That

To think about events realistically, in terms of multiple causations, is hard and emotionally unrewarding. How much easier, how much more agreeable to trace each effect to a single and, if possible, a personal cause! To the illusion of understanding will be joined, in this case, the pleasure of hero-worship, if the circumstances are favourable, and the equal, or even greater pleasure, if they should be unfavourable, of persecuting a scapegoat

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love

Karuna. Karuna." And a semitone lower, "Attention.

Lo que los dos hombres tenían en común era el conocimiento de que eran individuos.

It's an affair of the mind; experience and thought have to draw it out.

We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters.

Abban volt bölcs, hogy tudott hallgatni. A hallgatás úgy zárja magába a bölcsesség és szellemesség ígéretét, mint márványtömb a remekbe faragott szobrot. Aki hallgat, nem tanúskodik önmaga ellen.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.