Quotes About Understanding

And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Opposition is true Friendship.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last

none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.

Vision is the end of religion.

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.

Folly is an endless maze; Tangled roots perplex her ways;

Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception, he percieves more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

Throughout all eternity I forgive you you forgive me.