Quotes About Understanding

one understands nothing psychological unless one has experienced it oneself.

today as then I am a solitary, because I know things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.6

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.15

one must experience and know."33

It offers neither facts nor power, but for lovers of self-knowledge, of wisdom—if there be such—it seems to be the right book.... Let it go forth into the world for the benefit of those who can discern its meaning.

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by continuous exercise to distinguish good from evil.

2 A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand; he only wants to express his own opinion.

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

What had happened in the Chinese civil war as much as anything else reflected those changes, something MacArthur never chose to understand. Part of that was his very nature, and what had become the nature of his mystique. He did not ask questions; that would imply there was something he did not know. Instead he was oracular, the man that others came to hear. Major

If you have to write it down, you don't know it well enough

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

We need to get behind the surface appearances if we are to act coherently in the world. Otherwise, acting in response to misleading surface signals typically produces disastrous outcomes.

This brings us back to Marx's method. One of the most important things to glean from a careful study of Volume I is how Marx's method works. I personally think this is just as important as the propositions he derives about how capitalism works, because once you have learned the method and become both practiced in its execution and confident in its power, then you can use it to understand almost anything.

When you yet to do 100% of what somebody wants, you need a perfect match, and it's pretty rare that you have a perfect match between what you thought people needed and what they actually need. If you try instead to do 80 percent of what they need, there's a pretty good chance you'll hit a sweet spot.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.