Quotes About Understanding

As pinturas, e muito mais tarde, os textos serviram de marcos e de pausas para reflexão, alertas, divertimento e prazer. Ajudaram a clarificar o que deveriam ter sido confrontos confusos com a realidade. Ajudaram a deslindar e a organizar o conhecimento. Proporcionaram um caminho para a compreensão do que significam as coisas.

The simple idea, then, is that feelings of pain and feelings of pleasure, from degrees of well-being to malaise and sickness, would have been the catalysts for the processes of questioning, understanding, and problem solving that most profoundly distinguish human minds from the minds of other living species.

Language may not be the source of the self, but it certainly is the source of the "I.

neurobiology not only can assist us with the comprehension and compassion of the human condition, but that in so doing it can help us understand social conflict and contribute to its alleviation.

This is not to suggest that neurobiology can save the world, but simply that the gradual accrual of knowledge about human beings can help us find better ways for the management of human affairs.

A metafísica e a ciência não são pois rivais, mas colaboradoras na obra do conhecimento, e a concepção metafísica e a científica não devem ser representadas como duas esferas opostas, mas como dois círculos concêntricos.

You don't want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good in English. If it sounds clumsy, readers will pounce on it of course.

For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity.

That is why the truth is in the hands of unofficial folk.

Although we can thus send our thoughts, it must not be assumed that our minds are as an open book for all to read.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn't tolerance but condescension.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I've got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you're in love with your prejudiced idea of that person.

What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and truth.

I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.

How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it but by understanding it. In understanding, it disappears. How does one cope with darkness? Not with one's fist. You don't chase darkness out of the room with a broom, you turn on a light. The more you fight darkness, the more real it becomes to you, and the more you exhaust yourself. But when you turn on the light of awareness, it melts.

To know reality you have to know beyond knowing.

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? What does it mean to love? It means to see a person, a thing, a situation, as it really is and not as you imagine it to be, and to give it the response it deserves. You cannot love what you do not even see.