Quotes About Understanding

It bothered him to think that the listeners might look at him as a broken down reel, trapped by sameness of his grief. Afterwards he would realize he had left out whole chunks of what he truly wanted to say.

one of the principal qualities of pain is that it demands to be defeated first, then understood.

Het enige wat je over oorlog moet weten, zoon, is: Niet gaan. "The only thing you need to know about war, son, is: Don't go.

A book is completed only when its finished by a reader.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Rumi, the poet, the Sufi, said, something I will never forget: Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there.

We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.

Rumi, the poet, the Sufi, said something that I will never forget: Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there.

Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

estuvimos paseando juntos dos horas, la mayor parte del tiempo sin hablar, como corresponde entre dos hombres que se conocen íntimamente.

Most people, if you describe a train of events to them will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically.

No procuro saber las respuestas, procuro comprender las preguntas.

Aprender sin pensar es inútil. Pensar sin aprender peligroso

Dimmi e dimenticherò. Mostrami e ricorderò. Coinvolgimi e capirò.

Quando le parole perdono di senso, i popoli perdono la loro libertà.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.