Quotes About Understanding

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

The knowledge of all things is possible

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

The truth is at the bottom of a well: look into it and you see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there's no more sun or moon: just truth.

Una grande opera d'arte (così come un grande avvenimento) vive attraverso un'infinita varietà di punti di vista e a diversi e mutevoli livelli di comprensione: nel tempo, nello spazio, da un individuo ad un altro, nel mutare delle condizioni in cui lo stesso individuo vi si accosta. E può vivere anche, per così dire, nell'aria, senza che direttamente la si conosca.

Translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Ma certe cose che la mente non intende, il cuore le intende.

Bisognerebbe entrare nell'inesprimibile senza sentire la necessità di esprimerlo...

One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.

Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.

She can't remember the last time she spoke to a man who was listening.

He had needed someone to see him, to understand; to astonish him, like the concert.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

He felt that in the eyes of the Infinite wisdom and folly are the same, for the Infinite knows them not.

You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Es nützt nichts, das Buch in der Mitte wegzuwerfen, nur weil man etwas nicht versteht!

Kun tiedämme, millaisesta tarinasta on kyse, tiedämme, mitä meidän tulee tarkkailla.

For years I have been a prisoner of the people of the set now called the Watchers. These great hypnotists have no idols, their magic is powerful and their appetite insatiable. They thrive on misery, but have great delicacy in choosing their victims. They evoke compassion but have none themselves. They possess unlimited knowledge but have no understanding, and this gives them the power of absolute, concentrated hate.

This is the really incomprehensible side of humanity, people never have time for anything.