Quotes About Understanding

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Benevolence is love to all men. It is to know all men.

He answered, How dare I look as high as Hui? When Hui hears one thing, he understands ten; when I hear one thing I understand two.

IgnoranÈ›a genereaz? mai des încredere în sine decât cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele.

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

Has he ever even said he loved you? He's been telling me for years, she said softly, I just wasn't listening

I am no good without you, Ginesse," he said. "I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes. He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much." This time, she didn't hit him.

Tears are nothing to be ashamed of at all. -Grandma Shaw

Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of speech. It is the very essence of our minds as we seek to make sense of our surroundings, our experiences, ourselves, seeing similarities, parallels, connections. We cannot help it. Even as the mind fails, it goes on trying to make sense of what is happening to it.

what the hell is 'emotional bonding,' anyway? It sounds like something out of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If

also want to deal with what emotional maturity really entails, and everything else about your emotions you should have learned when

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Dar adev?rul nu st? într-un singur fapt. AÈ™a cum un om nu are doar cutare vârst?, atâtea kilograme, cutare în?lÈ›ime È™i culoare a ochilor È™i a p?rului. Un om este toate acestea, plus înc? ceva. Iar acest ceva e mai important decât toate acestea. Tot astfel, adev?rul e un num?r de fapte, plus înc? ceva. Întotdeauna. Faptele singure nu sunt niciodat? întreg adev?rul.

Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal love and not devouring to their prey?

Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create. And so the ability of Negroes and whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found readymade; it must be created by the fact of contact.

Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.