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Quotes About Understanding

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.
~ Frederick Lenz
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.
~ Frederick Lenz
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
~ Walter Savage Landor
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.
~ Bryant H. McGill
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
~ John Dewey
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.
~ Victor Cousin
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
~ Warren Buffett
Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
~ Immanuel Kant
Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
~ Karl Marx
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
~ Immanuel Kant, Opus Postumum
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
~ Alexander the Great
Listening is the best way to complement and value others opinion.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.
~ Debasish Mridha
Those who can truly see, know.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The key to opening the secret of humanity is to love and understand the beauty of it.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life is to short to hate someone or give a damn about someone
~ Pushkar Saraf
To forgive others, you must forgive yourself first.
~ Debasish Mridha
Just love others for what they are and not what you want them to be.
~ Sanchita Pandey
To find it, give the love that you seek.
~ Debasish Mridha