Quotes About Understanding

Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

La réalité du monde ne lui apparaissait pas solide.

Vous êtes bien? demanda Coban. Elle ne le regarda même pas. Elle savait qu'il savait.

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.

One should never judge anything unless it is known.

This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt

Man, being finite in nature can only have knowledge perfectness of which is limited.

It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.

Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had never learned rhetoric.

Science in its entirety is true and evident cognition.

Right understanding is the most equally divided thing in the World; for every one beleevs himself so well stor'd with it, that even those who in all other things are the hardest to be pleas'd, seldom desire more of it then they have; wherein it is not likely that all Men are deceived:

y que dice que nada hay en el entendimiento que no haya estado antes en el sentido

Viver sem filosofia é exatamente como ter os olhos fechados sem nunca procurar abri-los.

This is so much the case that the will is the chief basis for my understanding that I bear a certain image and likeness of God.

If philosophers were always in agreement about the meaning of words, almost all their disputes would evaporate.

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted.