Quotes About Understanding

There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it.

Ei ole niin väliä, ketä rakastaa, kunhan rakastaa.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Philosophical attention is focused on a more complex matter: the possession of wisdom (sophia – the wisdom loved by the philosophos). It is assumed, taken to be a matter beyond argument, that wisdom is not just knowing individual facts, but being able to relate them to one another in a unified and structured way, one that involves understanding of a field or area of knowledge.

unified understanding is not a theoretical grasp cut off from practice, but may itself involve a practical ability to apply the understanding in question.)

What would show that a person has wisdom and understanding comes to be referred to as 'giving an account', logon didonai. Logos is the ordinary Greek word for reason; what you say about the topic you are supposed to understand must give reasons in a way that explains the matter.

What would show that a person has wisdom and understanding comes to be referred to as 'giving an account', logon didonai. Logos is the ordinary Greek word for reason; what you say about the topic you are supposed to understand must give reasons in a way that explains the matter. Socrates' victims can produce plenty of words, but they fail to give a reasoned account of their subjects, and so are shown not to understand what they are talking about.

standards for 'giving an account'? This is obviously crucial for the question of whether you really know, that is, understand something. Minimally, of course, you have to be able to keep your end up in an argument and show that your position is consistent.

It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. … Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality'? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary."–LEA DELARIA

Here, In concise form, is what I have characterized as "Galileo's mistake." It is an error that has been understood by philosophers from the eighteenth century onward, from David Hume to Imman-uel Kant to Thomas Kuhn, with Increasing clarity. The mistake is In the belief that nature is Its own interpreter. It is not.

In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

To understand that antiracist and antihomophobic politics are informed by a common ethical interest is to create the possibility of coalition across difference.

Haalaat chup kara dete hain insaan ko wagarna bolna sabh ko aata hain

Jiska bachpan hi ghar ki ladaaiya dekh guzra ho Woh ab dara sehma sa rehta hain toh zamaane ko malaal kyu

Soch kesi hain emaan kesa hain lafz bata dete hain insaan kesa hain

Usne yeh nahi kaha ke usey bhichadna hain mujhse Bas dheere-dheere baatein kam kardi

Die knowing something. You're not here long.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

There is nothing wrong with anything; there is nothing wrong with anybody.