Quotes About Understanding

Taking our knowledge to heart and really living it, however, can be difficult, as Seneca illustrated with a literally colourful analogy: 'Just as some dyes are readily absorbed by the wool, others only after repeated soaking and simmering, so there are some studies that show up well in our minds as soon as we have learned them; this one, though, must permeate us thoroughly. It must soak in, giving not just a tinge of color but a real deep dye, or it cannot deliver on any of its promises.

Both Buddhism and Stoicism strongly encourage us to cultivate understanding and ethical action through spiritual practice. We may not share their precise views, but they certainly seem correct in their assessment that a good life requires more than positive feelings.

If you have known someone your whole life, you can see them in the dark.

In love, there is no criticism. In love, there is no rationality

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener

Cuando conoces a alguien desde hace mucho tiempo, puedes verlo hasta en la oscuridad.

Even to know that delight, in a perfect world, would be the proper response to life is a simplicity beyond most of us.

noscitur a sociis

A traditional and hence anticipated rule of interpretation, no less than a traditional and hence anticipated meaning of a word, imparts meaning.

For example, post can refer to a piece of timber set upright, a position of employment, or mail.

But more often the language is not plain and unambiguous, so that to figure out its meaning, the implicit process of interpretation that we apply to plain and unambiguous language must be made express.

fair reading": determining the application of a governing text to given facts on the basis of how a reasonable reader, fully competent in the language, would have understood the text at the time it was issued. The endeavor requires aptitude in language, sound judgment, the suppression of personal preferences regarding the outcome, and, with older texts, historical linguistic research.

I think there is writing genius as well—which consists primarily, I think, of the ability to place oneself in the shoes of one's audience; to assume only what they assume; to anticipate what they anticipate; to explain what they need explained; to think what they must be thinking; to feel what they must be feeling.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

No necesito una novia. ¡Necesito un "te quiero" dicho con toda el alma! "Te quiero con tu tristeza y tu angustia; para sufrir contigo, y no para llevarte a ningún falso reino de la alegría.

I understood that she was more candor & despair than woman. She had refused to be flesh & triumphed. She was freer than I.

Y yo la miro y siento que amo a la gente triste y silenciosa.

But I had done for them what no one had ever tried to do for me. To say, to their hopes: No.

El que busca lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

History teaches, but has no pupils.

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

Intelligence is only as good as the consumer's ability to believe and utilize it.

El ojo que ves no es ojo porque tú lo veas, es ojo porque te ve.

Bueno es saber que los vasos nos sirven para beber; lo malo es que no sabemos para qué sirve la sed.