Quotes About Understanding

Hästi sõnastatud teadmised on hea vaimutoit,» ütles Philip Sidney. Aga teisest küljest: «Sõnad on nagu puude lehed — sealt, kus neid on ohtralt, võib harva leida palju mõistuse vilja.» Alexander Pope.

That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

All men are competent to know the mind of God. There is no revelation special to any people.

Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. It tells you what the experience is.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions.

Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.

Sólo se escribe la mitad de un libro: de la otra mitad debe ocuparse el lector.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

We could not understand, because we were too far and could not remember

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—

No method at all,' I murmured after a while. 'Exactly

I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.

the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear;

The girl he had come across, of whom he had possessed himself, to whose presence he was not yet accustomed, with whom he did not yet know how to live; that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time.

Conrad actively sought the reader's collaboration in the production of meaning, telling a friend 'one writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader' (Letters, i, 370).

You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything--and that's what so many of them youngsters don't understand.

Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings.

He was easily sorry for people.