Quotes About Understanding

Si los chicos no aprenden esto, que la cultura no es acumulación de saber sino discriminación, no hay educación sino desorden mental.

Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly;

Dire che un testo virtualmente non ha limiti non significa che ogni atto interpretativo possa avere un esito felice. Per

Her ÅŸeyin, hiçbir ÅŸey anlamayan birinin sözcükleri arac?l???yla anla??lmas?n? saÄŸlamak.

Perdona siempre a tu enemigo. No hay nada que le enfurezca más»)

Metaphors can be read according to multiple interpretations; yet these interpretations can be more or less legitimated on the grounds of an underlying encyclopedic competence.

History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Astfel este magia vorbirilor omeneÅŸti, care prin înÅ£elegere omeneasc? însemneaz? adesea, cu sunete egale, lucruri deosebite.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

At times this can be so. Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book, or it is the other way around: it is the sweet fruit of a bitter stem. In reading Albert, couldn't I learn what Thomas might have said? Or in reading Thomas, know what Averroës said?

It is not intuitive why all this is intuitive.

William snapped, 'Drop it; we're looking for a Greek book!' 'This?' I asked, showing him a work whose pages were covered with abstruse letters. And William said, 'No, that's Arabic, idiot! Bacon was right: the scholar's first duty is to learn languages!' 'But you don't know Arabic, either!' I replied, irked, to which William answered, 'At least I understand when it IS Arabic!

Binele unei c?rÅ£i const? în a fi citit?. O carte este f?cut? din semne, care vorbesc de alte semne, carele, la rândul lor, vorbesc despre lucruri. F?r? un ochi care s? le citeasc?, o carte poart? semne care nu produc concepte, ÅŸi deci mut?.

Sin unos ojos que lo lean, un libro contiene signos que no producen conceptos. Y por tanto, es mudo.

Wenn ein Buch euch gehört und keinen antiquarischen Wert hat, dann unterstreicht es ruhig. Glaubt denen nicht, die behaupten, man müsse die Bücher respektieren. Bücher respektiert man dadurch, daß man sie benutzt, nicht dadurch, daß man sie nicht anrührt. Auch wenn ihr sie antiquarisch verkauft, bekommt ihr nur einen Pappenstiel - da könnt ihr ruhig die Spuren eures Besitzes in ihnen hinterlassen.

Querido Adso, no conviene multiplicar las explicaciones y las causas mientras no haya estricta necesidad de hacerlo.

Todo se explica utilizando menor número de causas.

4 El que trata de penetrar en la Rosaleda de los Filósofos sin la clave es como el hombre que pretenda caminar sin los pies. Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, Oppenheim

Life changed you, and the people you thought you could not stand suddenly made sense to you.

There are always two sides to a story.

there was nothing to do but to dig away at the base of this mountain of ignorance and prejudice. You must keep at the poor fellow; you must hold your temper, and argue with him, and watch for your chance to stick an idea or two into his head. And the rest of the time you must sharpen up your weapons- you must think out new replies to his objections and provide yourself with new facts to prove to him the folly of his ways.

Don't complain about our coffee; someday you may be old and weak yourself.

All that men had felt and suffered had been recorded and preserved in musical sound, a heritage for those who had ears to hear and minds to understand.