Quotes About Understanding

If Intelligence exists as a universal, then this would be the best universal way to divide up a planet so as to know where one is on it.

information will reach the receiving mind without error, or perhaps not link up with it at all.

a brief aside, consider the wide-ranging philosophical importance of the following maxim: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

While both of these adages may be somewhat appropriate in certain situations, it might daringly be pointed up that if we BECOME and ARE only what we experience, then it is not quite clear why we need intellect-intelligence or wisdom in the first place – because what we experience would do it ALL for us.

He who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.

Aquella tarde, bajo la maldita lluvia, acurrucada sobre mi infortunio, entendí que sin duda podía ser como ellos.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us.

No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

Trying to understand the mystery of God is like digging a hole in the beach and attempting to transfer the sea into it, bucket by bucket. It's never going to happen. That's why trust is integral to faith. And really--would a God that the finite mind was capable of fully understanding be worthy of worship? That would put Him at our level, and He's so much bigger than that.

Love isn't always easy, is it?

Sometimes the least friendly people are the ones in greatest need of a friend.

Forgive me, Lord, for being afraid of people who are different than me. Help me find the courage to do what the good Samaritan did that day on the roadside. Give me grace and compassion to overcome my narrow-mindedness and bigotry. Help me drive out any feelings of superiority. Let me see everyone as an equal and a worthy brother and sister—and act accordingly.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

perché anche una persona della stessa carne e dello stesso sangue può essere, crudelmente, del tutto inconsapevole del dolore che provoca.

Life is too short,I wonder how people hate

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment.

He stopped. "You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you

Ellijay, hadn't she known

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.