Quotes About Understanding

To Know the Dark To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed...

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The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.

Feel for others--in your pocket.

I told you he would make you a better sister than husband.

Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

Reason is necessarily presupposed in every revelation. Rev. is the communication of truth to the mind. But the communication of truth supposes the capacity to receive it.

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

Romanists argue that such is the obscurity of the Scriptures, that not only the people, but the Church itself needs the aid of tradition in order to their being properly understood. But if the Bible, a comparatively plain book, in one probable volume, needs to be thus explained, what is to explain the hundreds of folios in which these traditions are recorded? Surely a guide to the interpretation of the latter must be far more needed than for the Scriptures.

Science is more than knowledge. Knowledge is the persuasion of what is true on adequate evidence.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Time has a purpose. The meaning of a sentence becomes clear when we put a period at the end of it. The same applies to life. When

occurred to Nelle. I am satisfied

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

1) Closed About Our Feelings When we cannot feel a feeling, we are closed in our ability to accurately name and use it (Table 8). At that stage not only do we not know the feeling, but also we are unable to understand and communicate the condition of our True Self. While we may be talking superficially or even reporting facts, our interpersonal interaction and our ability to experience life and to grow is very low. We can call this stage of growing and sharing our feelings closed, or Level One.