Quotes About Understanding

The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five.

Dumme Gedanken hat jeder, aber der Weise verschweigt sie.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

?nsan facialar? sadece izleyebilir ama anlayamaz.

Erst durch Lesen lernt man, wie viel man ungelesen lassen kann.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

Bir ?eyi ne denli az anlarsan, o denli çok sayg? gösteriyor, onun kar??s?nda boyun e?iyorsun. Hitler'i Nietzsche'den, Napolyon'u da Pestalozzi'den daha iyi tan?yorsun. Sana göre bir kral, Sigmund Freud'dan daha önemlidir.

Sevgi h?rs?zl??? yapmad?m ömrümde. Bir kad?n yaln?zca beni istedi?i ve ben de onu istedi?im için sar?ld?m ona; kendimi, senin yapt???n gibi "sergilemedim"; senin kafandaki pis dü?üncelerden hiçbiri yok bende küçük adam.

Sen unutursun küçük adam ama büyük adam do?as? gere?i unutmaz. Sanma ki kin besler büyük adam, sanma ki öç al?r, yaln?zca neden böylesine baya?? davran??larda bulundu?unu çal???r.

Ki?iyi kendin gibi biliyorsun. Yaln?zca al?rs?n sen, vermezsin. Bu nedenle kar?? cinsten biriyle bir arada olup da, onu hemen "becermek" iste?i duymamak kavram? sana nas?l yabanc?ysa, bir kimsenin ya?amdan, "vermek"le tat alabilece?i kavram? da öylece yabanc?d?r.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.

Qué es el sentido común sino la pereza inherente a nuestro entendimiento, de salir del recinto tan pequeño y tan mezquino de nuestras representaciones y admitir la posibilidad de otras premisas?

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Caring for people often takes the form of concern for the quality of their stories, not for their feelings.