Quotes About Understanding

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Life is an art not to be learned by observation.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy

faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

smile first, then speak.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.