Quotes About Understanding

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Take what is given: Give what cannot be taken.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.