Quotes About Understanding

We don't get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of who we are. --Erynn Rowan Laurie

You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

All men desire to know

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

All men by nature desire knowledge...

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

Thought is required wherever a statement is proved, or, it may be, a general truth enunciated.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

To love someone is to identify with them.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

To perceive is to suffer.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Doubt had enclosed me in a world devoid of hope, devoid of faith. Beyond this small harbor of logical understanding lay the open waters of an unfamiliar freedom—something new, as yet unnamed, perhaps unnamable, which my aching heart longed to embrace. To enter the universe Joey had unveiled meant leaving my old world behind on the quay, and braving the uncharted waters alone.

Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.