Quotes About Understanding

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.