Quotes About Understanding

I think she got mad. 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.' That seemed to satisfy her.

From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Hayat?n s?rr?n?n çözülecek bir problem deÄŸil, tecrübe edilecek bir gerçeklik olduÄŸunu söyledi. Ben de Mentatl???n Ä°lk Yasas?'n? söyledim: 'Bir süreç onu durdurarak anla??lamaz. Ä°drak sürecin ak???yla birlikte gerçekleÅŸmeli, ona kat?lmal? ve onunla birlikte akmal?d?r.

Umut gözlemi buland?r?r.

Women learned it at the hands of men; now men learn it at the hands of women.

What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can't your universe merely be?

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed. But this made the empty place within him no easier to bear.

Pentru ceilalÈ›i, putem spune c? Muad'Dib a înv??at repede fiindc? prima sa înv???tur? a fost cum s? înveÈ›e. ?i prima lecÈ›ie a acestei înv???turi era încrederea fundamental? c? putea s? înveÈ›e. Este surprinz?tor cât de mulÈ›i oameni nu cred c? pot s? înveÈ›e È™i mai ales cât de mulÈ›i cred c? ete greu s? înveÈ›e.

Bene Gesserit Way, he opened his mind to Jacurutu, seeking to know nothing about it. Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

Pense no fato de que o surdo é incapaz de ouvir. Sendo assim, será que não sofremos algum tipo de surdez? Que sentidos nos faltam para que não consigamos ver nem ouvir outro mundo a nossa volta?

En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una obsesiva necesidad de un universo lógico. Pero el universo real se halla siempre un paso más allá de la lógica.

She said a thing.

Love, that is what you understand, she said. Love. And that is all of it. [...] You have faith in life, Hwi said. I know that the courage of love can reside only in this faith.

To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. —FROM "MANUAL OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death." Understanding this, you will be filled with joy.

The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity," he said. "They say: 'Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Tief im Unterbewusstsein des Menschen befindet sich der alles durchdringende Wunsch nach einem Universum, das einen logischen Sinn ergibt. Doch das echte Universum liegt immer einen Schritt jenseits der Logik.

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. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments.

trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space. There

Exist? multe feluri de a vedea È™i multe feluri de a fi orb. (...) Ce simÈ›uri ne lipsesc de nu putem vedea o alt? lume în jurul nostru?

The masses of Arrakis will know that we work to make the land flow with water," his father said. "Most of them, of course, will have only a semimystical understanding of how we intend to do this. Many, not understanding the prohibitive mass-ratio problem, may even think we'll bring water from some other planet rich in it. Let them think anything they wish as long as they believe in us.

ignorance reduces the shock of some experiences