Quotes About Understanding

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

Through the Adult the little person can begin to tell the difference between life as it was taught and demonstrated to him (Parent), life as he felt it or wished it or fantasied it (Child), and life as he figures it out by himself (Adult).

Parent is not the same as mother or father, Adult means something quite different from a grownup, and Child is not the same as a little person.

Adult data accumulates as a result of the child's ability to find out for himself what is different about life from the "taught concept" of life in his Parent and the "felt concept" of life in his Child. The Adult develops a "thought concept" of life based on data gathering and data processing.

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Love follows knowledge.

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.

our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The person who truly understands love could love anyone.

Hominem unius libri timeo

nothing can be known, save what is true;

sin embargo, el conocimiento más delgado que se puede obtener de las cosas más altas es más deseable que el conocimiento más cierto obtenido de las cosas menores

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

But the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower. Hence the knowledge of every knower is ruled according to its own nature. If therefore the mode of anything's being exceeds the mode of the knower, it must result that the knowledge of the object is above the nature of the knower. Now the mode of being of things is manifold.

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.