Quotes About Understanding

Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.

The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them

Quasi incredibil parmi Che la vita infelice e il mundo sciocco Gia per gran tempo assai Senza te sopportai ; Quasi intender non posso Come d'altri desiri, Fuor ch'a te somiglianti, altri sospiri. Parfois je ne puis croire Que cette vie misérable et ce monde sot, Sans toi, si longtemps, Je les aie supportés ; Et je comprends à peine Que vers d'autres désirs Sinon pareil à toi, d'autres soupirent. (Il pensiero dominante, la pensée dominante)

We are exquisitely social creatures. Our survival depends on understanding the actions, intentions and emotions of others. Mirror neurons allow us to grasp the minds of others not through conceptual reasoning but through direct simulation. By feeling, not by thinking.

rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.

It is another property of the human mind that whenever men can form no idea of distant and unknown things, they judge them by what is familiar and at hand.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

Cómo se permite usted, más bien, sostener aún que existen niños malos? Póngase de rodillas y pida perdón.

I didn't know what to say in reply, so I simply nodded, which always works because the meaning is put into it by the person you are talking to.

Ci sono occasioni in cui occorre parlare e non bisogna dare nulla per scontato. Poi ci sono occasioni in cui, invece, devi rimanere in silenzio perché nell'aria c'è qualcosa d'impalpabile e prezioso, e le tue parole potrebbero disperderlo in un istante. Sono due concetti semplici. La parte difficile è capire quando applicare una regola e quando l'altra.

What you must know is that, there are those who know what you know. What you do not know is those who do not know what you know; and those who know what you do not know. But, you must know that God knows what you know and what you do not know.

If Jesus were at the pulpit, he would be saying, "I know that you suffer. I lived on this earth, too, and I know for a fact that it's hard and painful sometimes.

Clarissa, I was calling to ask if you wanted to go to the Laker game tonight." Now, Clarissa was hurt. "This is really last minute." "I know, I'm sorry. I just got the tickets." "As I see it," Clarissa said, recovering, "you have two problems: One, I have plans, and two, I hate baseball." "Basketball," Aaron said.

My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant

Love is blind but not deaf.

He was also terrified that he hadn't properly read the small print of their relationship. He forgot that true friendship is a contract in which there can be no small print.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.

There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.