Quotes About Understanding

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Ascult?, b?iete. Pe Dumnezeu nu pot s?-l încap? cele nou? colÅ£uri ale cerului ÅŸi nici cele ÅŸapte ale p?mântului; îl încape îns? inima omului. ?i d-aia, È›ine minte, Zorbas, ai binecuvântarea mea, ai grij? s? nu r?neÈ™ti niciodat? inima omului!

Nikos Kazantzakis

As far as I can see, your lordship's never been hungry, never killed, never stolen. what ever can you know of the world? You've got an innocent's brain and you skin's never felt the sun

It takes a certain skill set to be partnered. You have the biological knowledge of the machine. What are the parts, where are they located, how do they work, what do they do? Then there is your intellectual understanding about sex, in history, what you believe about sex, what you were taught about sex. Then there's you intrapersonal skill, your relationship with yourself. Then there are interpersonal skills.

I became a kinesthetic person because I always overintellectualize. And feelings, for me, are a concept. Feelings? Ah yes, I've heard of those.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.

He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they'd become sick, because by seeking his help, somehow they became his.

Podría aprender más? ¿Cuánto era posible aprender? ''¿Cómo sera —se preguntó— aprender todo lo que puede enseñarse?

La medicina es como una lenta obra de albañilería. Somos afortunados si en el plazo de una vida podemos poner un solo ladrillo. Y si podemos explicar la enfermedad, alguien que aún no ha nacido estará en condiciones de conseguir su curación.

Un libro se puede quemar o perder, pero, cuando uno se lo aprende, el libro ya forma parte de su persona y los conocimientos duran tanto como él.

We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency to get attached to impermanent experiences causes sorrow, lamentation and grief, because eventually we are separated from everything and everyone we love. Our lack of acceptance and understanding of this fact makes life unsatisfactory.

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the ultimate weapon, and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use.

Willingness to be puzzled by what seem to be obvious truths is the first step towards gaining understanding of how the world works.

rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.