Quotes About Understanding

When a person's mind is blind, all senses are useless not alone eyes.

When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are only sleeping.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

This fellow has a glimpse of profundity.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

He knew almost as much as if he had read much.

when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world." "Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?" "Who knows, maybe by whistling?

The meaning is the ending.

Intuition,' he answered with a shrug. 'It is the only tool left to the mathematician in the absence of proof.

The amalgam of Truth and Beauty revealed through the understanding of an important theorem cannot be attained through any other human activity, unless it be (I wouldn't know) that of mystical religion.

I'm serious. He's beginning to understand.… When a person really loves something… or someone…" "Yes?" Jesse asked, softly, his lips brushing her ear. "You just have to…" Lucy looked away, over to the sun-drenched piazza, then back into Jesse's smiling face, into his warm, searching eyes, and the words came to her. "You just have to stand back and let them.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

Arrogance diminishes wisdom

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

Only he who understands is really sad.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Listen, if you would learn; be silent, if you would be safe.

Sad are only those who understan.

True set you free.

no conflict can be solved so long as all parties are convinced they are right. Solution is possible only when at least one party begins to consider how he might be wrong.

Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken.