Quotes About Understanding

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

The map is not the territory.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy