Quotes About Understanding

one's need an educated and understandable family to achieve one's goal

We are not like that, we engineers. We are men of understanding and of education, on whom is laid responsibility that men may travel in these aeroplanes as safely as if they were sitting by the well in the cool of the evening.

Okay,' said Jack phlegmatically. 'Be seeing you.' Friends and women, he knew, never really mixed.

For all the suffering that you've put me through I'd suffer more if I resented you—

for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life.

My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to bother about any of that.

There is in fact no such thing as the future, singular; only futures, plural. There are multiple interpretations of history, to be sure, none definitive – but there is only one past. And although the past is over, for two reasons it is indispensable to our understanding of what we experience today and what lies ahead of us tomorrow and thereafter.

when set in its proper historical context, the present time appears less unnervingly unprecedented and more familiar.

it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy.

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unintelligible because the print was so small.

the pairing instinct is the great remover of the limits between individuals

how far history is distorted by the dubious benefit of hindsight.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

It's because they don't understand good sex has nothing to do with equality.

and you just keep saying, uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, because you've heard all this before, you've already been where he's been, because he's telling you about a town you know like the back of your hand.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless..

Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the mountains to look down on the valley, so one has to be a prince to get to know the character of a people and a man of the people to know the character of a prince.

The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and to keep them faithful. But when they are otherwise one cannot form a good opinion of him, for the prime error which he made was in choosing them.

And since there are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and a third which understands neither by itself nor on the showing of others, the first of which is most excellent, the second good, but the third worthless

He was not a scholar, and he did not have the temperament of one who finds knowledge an end in itself.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people