Quotes About Understanding

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non-resistance, when successful, turns enemies into friends;

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. On the other hand, the same thing recurring on different days, in different contexts, read, recited on, referred to again and again, related to other things and reviewed, gets well wrought into the mental structure.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Freedom is only necessity understood.

No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse.

Freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.

This is too busy a world for us to stop and wonder whether a man wants what he does not ask for. Too many are clamoring loudly for what we cannot give...

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

Noble in form and in intent as all these neutral appeals were, there is something unreal and pathetic about them when reread today. It was as if the President of the United States, the Pope and the rulers of the small Northern European democracies lived on a different planet from that of the Third Reich and had no more understanding of what was going on in Berlin than of what might be transpiring on Mars.

a man who possesses the art of correct reading will… instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing… The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.*… Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose…

If tears of grief flowed from the eyes and tears of anger from the ears, I could show my heart without saying a word. But my tears all pour in the same way from my eyes, and there's no difference in their color. It's not surprising that you can't tell what's in my heart.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing thoughts.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

If I program 'ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it," Scile said. "If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it's only sound, and that's not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.

You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.

Everything, though, depended on whether we could teach the Ariekei what we had to.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't. That's why he understands the nutters. That's why he hunts them. He misses pure faith. He's jealous.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.