Quotes About Understanding

First man knows, then he understands, last he sees, or thinks he sees, and embroiders. In the same way the true poet creates, then understands...sometimes.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The children of God have more in common than they have differences. And even the differences can be seen as an opportunity. God will help us see a difference in someone else not as a source of irritation but as a contribution.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Tertullian argued that the Bible is often difficult to interpret. Obscure passages must be interpreted by those which are plain.

Al no poder comprenderlos, los proyectamos. Sus efectos perturbadores son atribuidos a alguna voluntad maligna exterior a nosotros mismos, preferiblemente la del vecino.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

My friend is one who takes me for what I am.