Quotes About Understanding

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.

To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

It can be met only by a right understanding, on the part of all classes, of what kinds of labor are good for men, raising them, and making them happy; by a determined sacrifice of such convenience, or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labor.

But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

The demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

Reading is precisely a conversation with men who are both wiser and more interesting than those we might have occasion to meet ourselves. –

true knowledge is the ability to discern the end in the beginning, to understand the end result of present action.

The nun said, "I can forgive the language. I'm not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother." "Ya gotta know her," Holland said. "If you knew her, you'd give her the finger, too.

Focus on our ignorance." She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.

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Make tender and awkward sexual advances, not war. ~ t-shirt

Lucas glanced at him and said, with a grin, "Bell is sometimes too social . . . if you know what I mean." "He talks too much," Robertson said. "But he's a good guy," Lucas said. "Yeah, he is," Robertson said. He leaned back in the seat and put his feet up on the dash, caught himself and said, "Whoops. Sorry about that.

That seems reasonable," Lucas said, because it was.

in to Reader's Digest.

Don't discount that part of who he was just because you didn't know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

Virtue signaling' is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other.

The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.

It is sort of remarkable to me how much grief can well up when a pet dies, until one remembers that they are in fact people, who just happen not to be human.

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.