Quotes About Understanding

all types of virtue are really just different aspects of wisdom.

True philosophy is a matter of a little theory and a lot of practice:

We are not becoming more educated; we are simply acquiring more knowledge. There is a fundamental difference between the two.

Understanding is the beginning of both wisdom and compassion.

Detengámonos durante un momento e intentemos imaginar hasta que punto seria mejor el mundo si todos evitáramos realizar juicios de valor precipitados y contemplásemos los asuntos humanos centrándonos en los hechos, con un poco más de compasión hacia nuestros congéneres humanos.

This Daoist art of perspective-taking—recognizing the existence of various perspectives—is called the "Illumination of the Obvious" or the attainment of ming ? (acuity, discernment).

the nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.

The basic idea of the new philosophy was that in order to figure out how to live a life worth living, a eudaimonic life, as both modern philosophers and psychologists still refer to it, we have to master two things: we need to develop a decent understanding of how the world works, so not to engage in wishful thinking and waste a lot of time and resources; and we need to reason as well as we can about things, or we risk arriving at the wrong conclusions as to what to do and how.

Para decidir cuál es la mejor forma de vivir (ética), hay que entender cómo funciona el mundo (física) y razonar adecuadamente sobre ello (lógica).

for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

That framework is the idea that in order to live a good (in the sense of eudaimonic) life, one has to understand two things: the nature of the world (and by extension, one's place in it) and the nature of human reasoning (including when it fails, as it so often does).

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

Forgive other people before you ask for forgiveness… As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

Compassion is truth in its purest form.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

And that's the beginning of the primary conversation in African American literature, right there: the African descendant explaining to the European descendant about how white people's actions are affecting the lives of black people.* In

Cei st?pâniÈ›i de un viciu ascuns pot identifica È™i analiza lucid mecanismele interne ale acelui viciu, când îi afecteaz? pe ceilalÈ›i.

I don't want there to be things you "love about me", I want you to love "all of me".

Je ne veux pas que tu aimes "ça en moi", je veux que tu aimes "moi tout entier".

modo inexplicable, les estábamos comprendiendo.

El arte y la cultura aumentan la armonía, la tolerancia y la comprensión entre las personas

Qué poco valoramos las cosas cuando no las hemos perdido!

El arte y la cultura aumentan la armonía, la tolerancia y la comprensión entre las personas —dijo Gete—.

A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence.