Quotes About Understanding

Information is alienated experience.

Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might have at a given time. It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our control.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

It is The Vague and Elusive.Meet it and you will not see its head.Follow it and you will not see its back.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

One may know the world without going out of doors.One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.The further one goes, the less one knows.Therefore the sage knows without going about,Understands without seeing,And accomplishes without any action.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened.

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.

Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent...