Quotes About Understanding

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

The more a man judges, the less he loves

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.

Exist? dou? fa?ete ale istoriei, cea oficial?, mincinoas?, care ne este adus? la cuno?tiin?? pentru a fi înv??at? – ad usum delphini – ?i fa?eta secret?, în care se g?sesc adev?ratele cauze ale evenimentelor.

Una de las desgracias a las que se ven sometidas las grandes inteligencias es la de comprender por fuerza todas las cosas, tanto los vicios como las virtudes.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table — a fool's notion of history.

Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u, art?k mutlu olamayacaklar?n sevinci olur.

But, after all, too much knowledge, like ignorance, brings you to a negation.

Un hombre debe estudiar bien a una mujer antes de dejarle entrever sus emociones y pensamientos tal como surgen.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Gençler ho?görüden yoksundur, çünkü ne ya?am konusunda bir ?ey bilirler ne de onun güçlükleri konusunda.

La chiave di tutte le scienze è indiscutibilmente il punto di domanda.

A mother who does not know all that her son is doing thinks the worst; that is, if a mother loves as much and is as much beloved as Fanny.

Men are like books, often understood and appreciated too late.

He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant. Come to think of it, this might be a good place to start.