Quotes About Understanding

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

No hablábamos. ¿Qué pueden decirse dos corazones que se aman? Nada. Pero nuestros ojos lo expresaban todo.

The frontier between your taste and mine is invisible; you will never be able to grasp it, proof that the frontier itself does not exist.

L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)

One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.

Till you have learned to serve men, how can you serve ghosts? Till you know about the living, how are you to know about the dead?

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I for my part am not one of those who have innate knowledge. I am simply one who loves the past and who is diligent in investigating it.

What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already taken its course, one does not criticize; what already belongs to the past, one does not censure.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

He who does not understand the will of Heaven cannot be regarded as a gentleman. He who does not know the rites cannot take his stand. He who does not understand words, cannot understand people.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

You hear not with the ears, but with the mind; not with the mind, but with your soul.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.