Quotes About Understanding

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

Employers know the nature of people best.