Quotes About Understanding

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.

Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own

We must therefore be guided by what is common to all. The Logos is common to all, yet the multitude lives as if each had his own intelligence.

For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen, and cannot judge what they have learned, although they tell themselves they know.

Thinking is common to all.

The habit of knowledge is not human but devine.

Not comprehending, they hear like the deaf. The saying is their witness: absent while present.

Meras creencias lo que el más acreditado conoce y custodia

No entienden los más las cosas con las que se topan, ni pese haberlas aprendido las conocen, pero a ellos se lo parece

Men verdooft zich met prietpraat en gebruikt ogen en oren niet.

Çok ÅŸey bilmek kavramay? öÄŸretmez.

The limits of the soul you could not discover, though traversing every path.

Though the logos is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Dr. William J. Mayo, one of the founders of Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, remarked: "One meets with many men who have been fine students, and have stood high in their classes, who have great knowledge of medicine but very little wisdom in application. They have mastered the science, and have failed in the understanding of the human being.

The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.

Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.