Quotes About Understanding

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.