Quotes About Understanding

Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

their work was a way to understand the workings of the divine.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

We can only learn so much and live.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Man sagt: gefallen«, verbessert die Mutter. »Als ob er hingefallen wäre? Das verstehe ich nicht. Er ist doch tot.« »Ja.« Der Vater hat sich eine Zigarette angezündet. »Viele sind tot, Hunderttausende liegen tot da draußen. Und vielleicht, weil man sich das nicht vorstellen mag, nennt man es so.«

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.

The master Wen-yu summed it up when he answered a demand for the First Principle of Ch'an with, "If words could tell you, it would become the Second Principle.

Only in formal meditation can there be the real beginning of understanding.

There's no escaping the Taoist adage, "Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak.

According to Ch'an (and Zen), understanding comes only by ignoring the intellect and heeding the instincts, the intuition.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.