Quotes About Understanding

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. It is a story which otherwise has yet to be told and which no American is prepared to hear.

It was as if in exploring each other, each of them discovered something of himself he had not yet learned to love.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

As Plato once said, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.

Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again.

Assim sendo a boa tradução não é impelida pelas motivações do domínio e da aquisição, mas pelo respeito. Tradução é uma palavra que deigna um conjunto de práticas mediante as quais aprendemos a conviver com as diferenças, com a fluidez da cultura e com a instabilidade do eu.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

Azra, it must be recorded, had never any confidence in her son; and was the only woman, Jurgen felt, who really understood him.

People use words to hate each other too much. I don't want to be one of those people. I'll just talk to myself like I have been all these years anyways. It's safer that way...

to accept people as they are. If I wait for others to be what I want them to be, I will never accept them. By looking at what my brother is not, instead of at what he is, I will never be able to sympathize with him, struggle with him, hurt with him, or rejoice with him.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

What would it be like to be Christ? I mean, did He ever play ball? Did He ever knock a window out of somebody's house and did He ever have to explain to His dad that He had to borrow twelve dollars?

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

In mixed company, be readier to hear than to speak, and put people upon talking of what is in their own way; for then you will both oblige them, and be most likely to improve by their conversation.

If you would have a right to account of things from illiterate people, let them tell their story in their own way; if you put them upon talking according to logical rules, you will confound them.

What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter.