Quotes About Understanding

I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

I have said: Blow out the lamp! Day is here! And you keep saying: Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!

Tell me of thine eyes And I will tell thee of thy heart. Tell me of thy feet And I will tell thee of thy hands. Tell me of thy sleeping And I will tell thee of thy waking. Tell me of thy desires And I will tell thee of thy need.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences.

Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The real universe is always one step behind logic.

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.