Quotes About Understanding

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

Logic is logic. That's all I say.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

To know is not less than to feel.

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

The trouble with prejudice is, there's usually a reason for it,' but she now knew better than to say this to Guy.

She decided he might be an easy acquaintance, but would not be easy to know.

Looking at Guy, Harriet laughed and said: 'Freedom is the recognition of necessity'.

People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it's such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don't lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I'd pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being.

We have to learn about love before we can learn about hate—otherwise everything goes to hell.

How can we judge another person without imprisoning that person in his past acts? Without shackling him to one moment of his development?

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

Be a Human not a Homosapien

Siempre las flores vigilaron la muerte porque siempre los hombres incomprensiblemente supimos que su existir dormido y gracioso es el que mejor puede acompañar a los que murieron sin ofenderlos con soberbia de vida sin ser más vida que ellos Jorge Luis Borges

The act of correctly seeing this world from this state of concentration (jyo) and the world of samadhi is called "wisdom." In other words, wisdom is the act of perceiving things of this world as they truly are.

Further, to have concentration without wisdom is to idly come to a standstill in an empty world.

Where were you facing yesterday?" "Well, my nose doesn't hurt a bit today." This answer must have highly pleased Baso. He praised Hyakujo, saying, "Now you understand. You know about today very well." He meant that Hyakujo truly realized the whereabouts of life.