Quotes About Understanding

Verstehen braucht seine Zeit. Daran solltest du immer denken.

Wie schön das Leben ist, erfährt man nur, wenn man sich nicht vor allem verschließt, was einem fremd erscheint.

Alle wesentlichen Dinge sind einfach, wenn man sie erst einmal begriffen hat. Schwierig ist nur der Weg, den man bis dahin gehen muss.

Zeit ist etwas, das man um so weniger begreift, je mehr man davon erfährt. Man kann ihrer nie sicher sein. Achtet man auf die Zeit, so schleicht sie dahin wie eine Schnecke, aber sobald man sich von etwas anderem ablenken läßt, springt sie davon wie ein Wiesel. Sie ist immer da, aber wenn du sie packen willst, greifst du ins Leere, denn sie ist schon wieder vergangen.

Wissen ohne Erfahrung taugt nicht viel.

Darf man einen Wolf zwingen, Gras zu fressen, wenn er keinen Appetit darauf hat?

Light is only seen in what it lets become visible. The "naturalness" of light consists precisely in this, that it only "dawns' in its own sense, with the visibility of things, and thus is itself not of the same nature as that which it evokes.

Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

A man whose wife has done everything he wishes for twenty years can never understand why she so suddenly changes. The woman who for twenty years has been silent, forgiving, smiling, patient, becomes in his eyes a rebel when in the twenty-first year she loses her patience and argues, accuses, demands explanations.Then she is a mutineer against whom every stratagem is permissible. Twenty years of patience have only given her the right to be patient also in the twenty-first.

Analysis of error begins with analysis of language.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship (in order to be more single-mindedly at the word's disposal) will select with great care basic works for his studies which will observe the so-called exactitude of scholarship without losing sight of the most important exactitude, namely, the ordering of all thought toward prayer.

Such a person can see without "pre-judice", that is, without judging in advance; he will judge only on the basis of what he has really seen for himself

To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.

The letter kills, it is the Spirit that gives life!" (2 Cor 3:6). You may be sure, reverend sir, that I will never accept some concept from Scripture if I have not really understood its meaning.

Prin instruirea sufletului s?u, potrivit imaginilor frumuseÈ›ii obiective, omul care se maturizeaz? trebuie s?-È™i însuÈ™easc? treptat arta discern?mântului, adic? a desluÈ™irii frumosului în sine.

F?r? cunoaÈ™terea estetic?, nici raÈ›iunea teoretic?, nici cea practic? nu pot s?-È™i ating? împlinirea total?.

Del mismo modo que no podemos «comprender» una melodía hasta que no se extingue su última nota, y juntándolas todas reconstruimos en nuestra memoria su unidad original, así tampoco podemos comprender el acontecimiento de Cristo en su totalidad más que mirándolo desde la resurrección.

The first concern must, then, not be to speak as others speak, but to conceive of the word of truth with understanding and exactitude. . . . It is not a matter of refuting the opinions of others, but of presenting one's own; not a matter of contesting some aspect of the teaching or behavior of others that seems not to be good, but of writing on behalf of truth.59

We have seen how someone else has encountered the word of God, we have even profited by his encounter, but all the same it was his and not ours—and we ourselves have achieved nothing.

To forget is good—but hard. To forgive is better.            Best of all is reconciliation.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.