Quotes About Understanding

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Life is our dictionary

The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

I will receive from them not what they have but what they are.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly. We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound, and who say the thing without effort which we want and have long been hunting in vain.

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

a good reader makes a good book

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.