Quotes About Understanding

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.

And here, poor fool! with all my loreI stand! no wiser than before.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Dear friend, all theory is gray,And green the golden tree of life.

We really only learn from books we cannot judge. The author of a book we could really judge ought surely to be learning from us.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

A person hears only what they understand.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.