Quotes About Understanding

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I

Conceive you - that ass!

It is universally understood that, as if it were nothing more substantial than vapour floating in the sky, every emotion of a woman is bound to end in a shower.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything

Les mots, vous le savez, sont les plus grands ennemis de la réalité.

Adev?rata via?? a unui om este aceea care i se acord? în mintea altora pe baza respectului sau a dragostei fireÈ™ti.

Wir gehen mit Worten Kompromisse ein. Es hilft uns auch nicht weiter.Es ist wie ein Wald in dem niemand den Weg kennt. Man ist verloren, während man noch ruft: Ich bin gerettet.

this month past. They had been engaged for six months (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—had no inherited experience to teach them as it were), and of course, as long as there was a

Sympathy is a form of fear, above the vulgar conception of time.

Frankly, it is not my words that I mistrust, but your minds.

There's no worse enemy and no better friend than a brother, Tuan, for one brother knows another, and in perfect knowledge is strength for good or evil.

Now who art thou, that on the bench wouldst sit In judgment at a thousand miles away, With the short vision of a single span?

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

For if ye had been able to see all, No need there were for Mary to give birth;

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset.

Thou'rt wise, and knowest better than I speak. And as he is, who unwills what he willed, And by new thoughts doth his intention change, So that from his design he quite withdraws

we are speaking about cognitive meanings, which cannot be transferred into students as blood is pumped into veins. Learning the meaning of a piece of knowledge requires dialog, exchange, sharing, and sometimes compromise.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance.

Perspicuity demands the clearest expression of thought conveyed in unequivocal language, so that there may be no misunderstanding whatever of the thought or idea the speaker or writer wishes to convey.

Joseph Devlin

Joseph Devlin

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.