Quotes About Understanding

Men must be taught as if you taught them not the things unknown, but the things forgotten.

Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.

A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ

Launch not beyond your depth

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. (from The Universal Prayer)

Algunas personas nunca aprenden nada, porque todo lo comprenden demasiado pronto.

Tak ucz ludzi, jak by? nie uczy? ich wcale. Lecz przypomina? rzeczy znane im doskonale.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A Lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, never to be read.

A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.

He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

As Anthony Thiselton puts it, "The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.

Love covers all kinds of offenses, hurts, annoyances, disappointments, and sins that we all suffer because of others. Only love has the power to freely and repeatedly forgive, to truly seek to understand people's weaknesses and complexities, to put things into proper perspective, and to put a blanket over other people's faults.

The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

I saw with regret, (and all scientific men have shared this feeling) that whilst the number of accurate instruments was daily increasing, we were still ignorant

Die gefährlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die Weltanschauung der Leute, welche die Welt nicht angeschaut haben.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.