Quotes About Understanding

The way to realize is to open. The more you open, the more you know, and soften, and love.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

Education is life itself.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.

Except in dealing with commonplaces and catch phrases one has to assimilate, imaginatively, something of another's experience in order to tell him intelligently of one's own experience.

Mind as a concrete thing is precisely the power to understand things in terms of the use made of them; a socialized mind is the power to understand them in terms of the use to which they are turned in joint or shared situations. And mind in this sense is the method of social control.

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to "see the forest on account of the trees.

We cannot expect to gain true knowledge without acting upon our ideas.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on "general principles.

Only in this connection of knowledge and social action can education generate the understanding... necessary for the continued existence of democracy.

A problem properly stated is half solved.

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

A problem well put is half solved.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

knowledge is the most powerful thing on earth, harvest it and use it wisely