Quotes About Understanding

Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of Veneration Without Understanding. Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds,—exoteric, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

The only way I can protect him now is to make sure he never understands how easy killing can become.

You don't have to speak. Words fade, she whispered. I know that better than anyone. Words are forgotten; they are regretted. Unnecessary. I know.

Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.

Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

Give me only evil men for friends, Verturio wrote. Them I understand.

They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, dreamer and cynic. And what is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone who makes up for your shortcomings? Someone you can work with. Work on.

Un hombre debe ser capaz de conocer sus propias limitaciones.

But there's so much to feel sorry for in the world. Can't waste too much on folk who act like pricks.

The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.