Quotes About Understanding

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.

Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.

In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself

IN order to discover the rules of society best suited to nations, a superior intelligence beholding all the passions of men without experiencing any of them would be needed.

El verdadero objeto de mis confesiones es hacer comprender exactamente mi interior en todas las situaciones.

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.

Ä°nsanlar? daha iyi tan?mak, beni içine düÅŸürdükleri ac?lar? daha iyi duymaya yarad?; üstelik kurduklar? tuzaklar? birer birer gördüÄŸüm halde, düÅŸmeme engel olamad?.

Das einzige Mittel, den Irrtum zu vermeiden, ist die Unwissenheit.

Respetad a la infancia y no os deis prisa en juzgarla ni para el bien ni para el mal. Dejad

I warn the reader that this chapter requires careful reading, and that I am unable to make myself clear to those who refuse to be attentive.

Wise men, if they try to speak their language to the common herd instead of its own, cannot possibly make themselves understood.

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.

LinguÈ™irea, sau mai bine zis îng?duinÈ›a, nu e totdeauna un p?cat, ea e de cele mai multe ori o virtute, îndeosebi la tineri. Bun?tatea cu care un om ne trateaz? ne leag? de el; nu-i cedezi ca s? profiÈ›i de el, ci ca s? nu-l mâhneÈ™ti, ca s? nu-i pl?teÈ™ti binele cu r?u.

nada enlaza tanto los corazones como llorar juntos.

La errónea idea que tenía de las cosas me inducía a creer que, para leer un libro con provecho, era necesario poseer todos los conocimientos que el mismo suponía, bien lejos de sospechar que con frecuencia carecía de ellos el mismo autor, quien iba a buscarlos en otros libros a medida que los necesitaba.

No se deben dar preceptos, sino hacer de manera que los encuentre el alumno.

Rapproche ces contrastes, aime la nature, méprise l'opinion, et connais l'homme.

Ne veut-on pas au moins apprendre de l'objet qu'on aime si l'on est aimé ?

I would rather he never learnt to read at all, than that this art should be acquired at the price of all that makes reading useful. What is the use of reading to him if he always hates it?

on ne connaît d'où est un homme qu'après qu'il a parlé.

Ben öÄŸrenmeyi baÅŸkalar?na öÄŸretmek için deÄŸil, kendimi bilmek için istedim.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

c'est que si chaque homme pouvait lire dans les cœurs de tous les autres, il y aurait plus de gens qui voudraient descendre que de ceux qui voudraient monter.

I do not like verbal explanations. Young people pay little heed to them, nor do they remember them. Things! Things! I cannot repeat it too often. We lay too much stress upon words; we teachers babble, and our scholars follow our example.