Quotes About Understanding

She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

Knowing how to apply maxims cannot be reduced to, or derived from, the acceptance of those or any other maxims.

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.

For making mistakes is not an exercise of competence, nor is the commission of slips an exercise of knowledge how; it is a failure to exercise knowledge how.

Roughly, execution and understanding are merely different exercises of knowledge of the tricks of the same trade.

I discover that there are other minds in understanding what other people say and do.

In making sense of what you say, in appreciating your jokes, in unmasking your chess-stratagems, in following your arguments and in hearing you pick holes in my arguments, I am not inferring to the workings of your mind, I am following them. Of course, I am not merely hearing the noises that you make, or merely seeing the movements that you perform. I am understanding what I hear and see. But this understanding is not inferring to occult causes.

Certainly there are some things which I can find out about you only, or best, through being told of them by you. The oculist has to ask his client what letters he sees with his right and left eyes and how clearly he sees them; the doctor has to ask the sufferer where the pain is and what sort of a pain it is; and the psychoanalyst has to ask his patient about his dreams and daydreams.

Nor does this understanding require a prolonged grounding in the not yet established laws of psychology.

Nor does this understanding require a prolonged grounding in the not yet established laws of psychology. Following the moves made by a chess-player is not doing anything remotely resembling problematic psychological diagnosis.

Of course, to execute an operation intelligently is not exactly the same thing as to follow its execution intelligently. The agent is originating, the spectator is only contemplating.

To do something thinking what one is doing is, according to this legend, always to do two things; namely, to consider certain appropriate propositions, or prescriptions, and to put into practice what these propositions or prescriptions enjoin.

A boy can be said to have partial knowledge of the counties of England, if he knows some of them and does not know others. But he could not be said to have incomplete knowledge of Sussex being an English county.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

une interprétation n'est elle pas assujettie aux émotions de son auteur et à la connaissance ou non du sujet qu'il interprète?

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

The world had little patience or concern for innocence.

We can't heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.

Well it seems to me

Well it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently rooted in friendship.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.