Quotes About Understanding

Those who are born with a silver spoon,' Emmanuel said, 'those who have never needed anything, do not understand what happiness is, any more than those who do not know the blessing of a clear sky and who have never entrusted their lives to four planks tossing on a raging sea.

My commands are ordinarily short, clear, and precise; and I would rather be obliged to repeat my words twice, or even three times, than they should be misunderstood.

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.

Edmond did not lose a word, but comprehended very little of what was said.

apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants : c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. (p. 183)

Abbé Faria: "... to learn is not to know; there are learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. Edmond Dantès: "But can I not learn philosophy as well as other things?" "My son, philosophy, as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

Admire yourself and others will admire you', a hundred times more useful in our days than the Greek one: 'Know thyself', which has now been replaced by the less demanding and more profitable art of knowing others.

it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.

On my word, I think you are right, Lucien, said Albert absently.

Kukapahan tässä onnesta tietää? Onnettomuus ja onni, ne jäävät seinien sisään salaisuudeksi. Seinät kuulevat, mutta eivät osaa puhua.

If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.

Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Aika tuo selvyyttä. Asiat, jotka vielä eilen näyttivät hämäriltä, ovatkin huomenna päivänselviä.

Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Believe me, when a woman loves a man, you do not win her heart by crossing swords with him.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." "But

Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly. Danglars

Hoy, caballero, tenemos otros intereses; cada edad trae consigo los suyos; y como hoy nos entendemos hablando, como en otra época nos entendíamos sin hablar, hablemos, si os parece.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

Leren is nog geen weten. Er zijn weters en er zijn geleerden. Het geheugen maakt de eerste soort, de wijsheid de tweede.

Herkes bir a??zdan konuÅŸmaya baÅŸlam??t?, kimse kar??s?ndakinin ona söylediÄŸi ÅŸeye yan?t vermeye çal??m?yor, sadece kendi düÅŸünceleriyle ilgileniyordu.

Very well," replied M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, and seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.