Quotes About Understanding

Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

If one religion true, then all the others also must be true. Thus the Hindu faith is yours as much as mine.

but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly.

Even by intellectually recognising the difficulties, we really do not know them until we feel them.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177)

Reason can go only to a certain extent, beyond that it cannot reach. The circle within which it runs is very very limited indeed. Yet at the same time, we find facts rush into this circle. Like the coming of comets certain things come into this circle; it is certain they come from outside the limit, although our reason cannot go beyond.

Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. The

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: "Help and not Fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension." 1.2

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177) PATIENCE

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life.

In one span of life they lived the whole life of humanity

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma

the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.

T ruth can be stated in a thousand different ways Yet each one can be true

B ooks are infinite in number and time is short The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential Take that and try to live up to it

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways.

Just about every animal," Scott says—not just mammals and birds—"can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy.