Quotes About Understanding

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock.

The Under-secretary of Understanding.

My goodness," thought Milo, "everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

i dokle god je odgovor pravi, koga briga Å¡to je pitanje krivo?

In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made from these words. With them, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.

Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof.

It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. It is overfull. No more will go in! Like this cup, Nan-in said, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

I want to ask him to wait, she said. I have just found my father, and I want it to be just we two for a while. I want to tell him he will have to wait.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward—or rather laterally—in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet, and Now, returning—or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit—I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination.

No pretendía ser un sabio, pero había bebido hasta emborracharse en el manantial de la sabiduría.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Everything is language.

Los ojos se cierran, las palabras se abren.

Tal vez amar es aprender a caminar por este mundo

Los ojos del entendimiento comulgan con la hermosura y el hombre procrea no imágenes ni simulacros de belleza si no realidades hermosas.

A história é um conhecimento que se situa entre a ciência propriamente dita e a poesia. O saber histórico não é quantitativo, nem o historiador pode descobrir leis históricas. O historiador descreve como o cientista e tem visões como o poeta. (...) A história nos dá uma compreensão do passado e, por vezes, do presente. Mais do que um saber, é uma sabedoria.

Su curiosidad no es la del hombre de ciencia, sino la del hombre culto que aspira a integrar en una visión coherente todas las particularidades del conocimiento. Presentía oculto engarce entre todas las verdades.