Quotes About Understanding

In materia di esami e di assunzioni, - capire - significa capire quel che ci si aspetta da noi. Un testo - capito bene - è un testo intelligentemente negoziato.

Non si ha più diritto di mettersi le parole in bocca prima di ficcarsele in testa? Niente più orecchie? Niente più musica? Niente più saliva? Parole senza più gusto?

les profs ne sont pas préparés à la collision entre le savoir et l'ignorance, voilà tout ! (p. 290)

Young people's reluctance to read is all the harder to understand if you're of a generation, a time, a background, a family, where everyone always tried to keep you from reading.

Le savoir est d'abord charnel. Ce sont nos oreilles et nos yeux qui le captent, notre bouche qui le transmet. Certes, il nous vient de livres, mais les livres sortent de nous. Ça fait du bruit, une pensèe, et le gout de lire est un héritage du besoin de dire.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Releer no es repetirse, es ofrecer una prueba siempre nueva de un amor infatigable.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

La ciencia nos ofrece una nueva visión del mundo que ha liberado el espíritu humano, o al menos tiene el potencial de hacerlo. Lo más importante de la ciencia es la ciencia misma, es decir, la forma de proceder que nos ha acercado a un profundo entendimiento de cómo es el mundo.

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

There's something about death that gets our attention. When it's close—in the family or shared by the community—it sends us back to our most basic understanding of things. Back to our presuppositions you might say. Death requires of us an explanation. Some invoke the periodic table, some the human condition, and some go back to church—at least for a while.

We are all wedded to our stories. It doesn't mean we are each hermetically sealed in our own little worlds, impervious to the influence of others. It does mean the only way to avoid such isolation is to listen, compassionately, to the stories of others.

If the goal of science is to make us feel awkward and ignorant in the presence of things we once understood perfectly well, then psychology has succeeded above all others.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Small children cannot say what they want to be later because they don't really understand what later means.7 So, like shrewd politicians, they ignore the question they are asked and answer the question they can.

Qué diera hoy por saber esto ayer!

History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas," noted Henry David Thoreau, "but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."7

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Wisdom begins at the end.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.