Quotes About Understanding

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Porque así como aquellos que dibujan se colocan abajo, en el llano, para considerar la naturaleza de los montes y de los lugares elevados y, para considerar la de los bajos, se colocan en lo alto, sobre los montes, igualmente para conocer bien la naturaleza de los pueblos, es necesario ser príncipe, y para conocer bien la de los príncipes, es necesario ser del pueblo.

Dante says:  Knowledge doth come of learning well retained,   Unfruitful else

Ci sono uomini che sanno tutto, peccato che questo è tutto quello che sanno.

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.

Every one sees what you seem, but few know what you are ...

Trzeba by? ksi?ciem, aby pozna? natur? ludu. Trzeba nale?e? do ludu, aby pozna? natur? ksi???t

so in like manner to understand the People a man should be a Prince, and to have a clear notion of Princes he should belong to the People.

Nas?l manzara resmi yapanlar, daÄŸlar?n ve yüksek yerlerin yap?s?n? gözlemlemek için ovada alçak bir konumda duruyor ve alçak yerlerin yap?s?n? gözlemlemek için daÄŸlar?n tepesine ç?k?yorlarsa, ayn? ÅŸekilde, halklar?n yap?s?n? iyi tan?mak için prens olmak ve prenslerin yap?s?n? iyi tan?mak için de halktan birisi olmak gerekir.

Cada uno ve lo que pareces ser; pero pocos comprenden lo que eres realmente

Ognuno vede quello che tu pari, pochi sentono quello che tu se

expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.

It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.

My father would say 'I think the trouble is that they don't have the ability to see just what it is they are doing.' I would say 'Is that difficult?' My father would laugh and say 'Yes, it's difficult.

Recall is an act of disciplined reimagination, and the remote past may be beyond anyone's ken.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

You really love her don't you, she said. With all my heart. She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know. Maybe, she said gently,You're trying to hard to hear it.

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.