Quotes About Understanding

Chi non conosce le lingue straniere non conosce nulla della propria.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

But you will never know another's heart, unless you are prepared to give yours too.

It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the more complex problems which they will perhaps never grasp. What is simple to grasp is quite usable and useful, and can keep us occupied for a whole lifetime if it satisfies and stimulates us.

Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.

Într-adev?r ?tiu multe, dar a? vrea s? ?tiu totul.

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason.

The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, similarly, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast.

Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

I treat my little heart like a sick child: whatever it wishes for is granted.

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion!