Quotes About Understanding

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

She made America not just acceptable to Thornton, but necessary;

children are a thing only a parent can stand

Y]ou are a puzzle to me and if I could solve that puzzle I could solve the puzzle of America.

While we are in love with a person our knowledge of his weaknesses lies lurking in the back of our minds and our idealization of the loved one is not so much an exaggeration of his excellence as a careful "rationalization" of his defects.

Live people don't understand, do they?

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.

Few people realize that the Bible discourages people from studying foreign languages.

The vocabularies in the world add up, they do not overlap. Translation is something else.

I suppose it seems ignoble to you that a great oak of a man should go about the world like a blind man about an empty house merely because a chit of a girl has been withdrawn from it. No, no, you cannot understand this, my adored one, but I understand and grow pale...You will laugh at me, but I think he goes about the hemispheres to pass the time between now and his old age.

También en este caso, es una estupidez enfadarse con el síntoma y, absurdo, tratar de suprimirlo impidiendo su manifestación. Lo que debemos eliminar no es el síntoma, sino la causa. Por consiguiente, si queremos descubrir qué es lo que nos señala el síntoma, tenemos que apartar la mirada de él y buscar más allá.

I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.

by establishing the Mental Nature of the Universe, easily explains all of the varied mental and psychic phenomena that occupy such a large portion of the public attention, and which, without such explanation, are non-understandable and defy scientific treatment.

The Kybalion as follows: "Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his Teaching open wide." And again: "When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom." But their customary attitude has always been strictly in accordance with the other Hermetic aphorism, also in The Kybalion: "The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.

The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open.

de El Kybalión también, que afirma que «los labios de la Sabiduría permanecen cerrados, excepto para el oído capaz de comprender».

And we caution all students to be sure to grasp the Divine Paradox of the Absolute and Relative, lest they become entangled in the mire of the Half-Truth. With this in view this particular lesson has been written. Read it carefully!

Os lábios da Sabedoria estão fechados, exceto aos ouvidos do Entendimento.

If you are a true student, you will be able to work out and apply these Principles—if not, then you must develop yourself into one, for otherwise the Hermetic Teachings will be as "words, words, words" to you. THE THREE INITIATES.

The voice of wisdom is silent, except to the open mind.

Los labios de la sabiduría están cerrados, excepto para los oídos del entendimiento." El Kybalión.

Los labios de la sabiduría permanecen cerrados excepto para el oído capaz de comprender.»