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Quotes About Understanding

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.
~ Jonathan Swift
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.
~ Jonathan Swift
As learnèd commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.
~ Jonathan Swift
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
~ Jonathan Swift
regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime
~ Jonathan Swift
When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors; the first proselyte he makes is himself.
~ Jonathan Swift
we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.
~ Jonathan Swift
nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
~ Jonathan Swift
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
~ Jonathan Swift
La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo
~ Jonathan Swift
La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo.
~ Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
~ Glumdalclitch
Anlamad???n?z bir insan? delidir diye nitelemek o kadar kolayd?r ki!
~ Jonathan Swift
To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.
~ Jonathan Weiner
There will, one day, be an existence for us that will be the ultimate in reality and experience, and we can understand this truth only by faith. What we see by faith is true reality.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Love is touching souls.
~ Joni Mitchell
It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
~ Joni Mitchell
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
~ Jorge Amado
Mesmo não sabendo que era amor, sentiam que era bom.
~ Jorge Amado
Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.
~ Jorge Amado
Love is not to be proven or measured,' said Joao Fulgencio. 'It's like Gabriela. It exists, and that is enough. The fact that you can't understand or explain something doesn't do away with it. I know nothing about the stars, but I see them in the heavens; and my ignorance in no way affects either their existence or their beauty' (376).
~ Jorge Amado
Zaljubiti se zna?i voljeti podudaranosti, a voljeti, zaljubiti se u razli?itosti.
~ Jorge Bucay
Enamorarse es amar las coincidencias, y amar, enamorarse de las diferencias. El
~ Jorge Bucay
Cuando nos deshacemos de la ilusión, es decir de la idea de lo que es el otro, comienza la real posibilidad de que el amor suceda, porque el amor sólo se da entre dos personas de carne y hueso y no entre dos ilusiones.
~ Jorge Bucay