Quotes About Understanding

No reflecting reader can deny that the passing off, on an unsuspecting listener, of noises for words, or symbols, must be classified as a fraud, or that we pass to the other fellow contagious semantic disturbances.

Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic." This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no

My contention is that while progress in some of the great matters of human concern has been long proceeding in accordance with the law of a rapidly increasing geometric progression, progress in the other matters of no less importance has advanced only at the rate of an arithmetical progression or at best at the rate of some geometric progression of relatively slow growth. To see it and to understand it we have to pay the small price of a little observation and a little meditation.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El mapa no es el territorio" (Alfred Korzybski)

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower—but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Qu'importe de quoi parlent les lévres, lorsqu´e on écoute les coeurs se répondre,

Common sense is genius in homespun.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.

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