Quotes About Understanding

Be not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held with bit and bridle" (Psalms 32:9).

Remember that it is not right to take a passage out of its context and to draw inferences from it. It is imperative to take into consideration the preceding and following statements in order to fathom the writer's meaning and purpose before making any deductions.

Me di cuenta de que sin palabras los humanos nos convertimos en bestias y perdemos la cordura

Yo no le había puesto nombre. No tenía palabras. Creía que si no hablaba no existía. Las cosas que no se nombran se olvidan o desaparecen. Por eso me costaba tanto explicárselo a alguien

Oricat l-ar iubi cineva pe altcineva, cat de u?or il poate in?ela, deoarece nimeni nu poate cunoa?te, f?r? s? i se spun?, gandurile altuia.

Via?a nu se împline?te prin uitarea suferin?ei, ci prin zilnica transformare a mâhnirii în în?elegere, a cruzimii în tandre?e ?i a am?r?ciunii în dulcea??.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

I can explain to you why algebra is useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.' He moved his fingers gently on my temples. 'It's to keep what is in here healthy. PE for the head. And the great thing is you can do it sitting down.

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.

Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild Bedouin sees geometric forms but doesn't understand them ; the Sunni understands them but does not admire them; the artist, finally, perceives the perfection of figures, understands beauty, and admires order and harmony.God was the Great Geometer.He geometrized heaven and earth.

The female intelligence, well directed, can perfectly encompass the beauties and secrets of science. It

And the female brain,' said the holy man, 'is incapable of grasping the first principles of geometry.

El hombre sólo vale por lo que sabe.

the eye should not see until the heart has conceived

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The art of conversation lies in listening

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Only by taking the strange on its own terms can we understand ourselves in time. This is the purpose of history, which my doctoral supervisor was taught then passed on to me. It remains the name of the game.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.