Quotes About Understanding

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Philosophy is not a doctrine but a way of life, so the philosophers, for all the differences in their teachings, have more in common with one another than with anyone else, even their own followers.

For modern men who live in a world transformed by abstractions and who have themselves been transformed by abstractions, the only way to experience man again is by thinking these abstractions through with the help of thinkers who did not share them and who can lead us to experiences that are difficult or impossible to have without their help.

Reason is only one part of the souls economy and requires a balance of the other parts in order to function properly.

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

The side of modernity that is less interesting to Americans, which seeks less for political solutions than for understanding and satisfaction of man in his fullness or completeness, finds its profoundest statement in Nietzsche.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

when he wanted her opinion, he would give it to her.

Queridos amigos; todos los días oigo decir entre vosotros: "Soy pobre, no puedo hacer caridad"; y veo también que os falta la indulgencia para vuestros semejantes; nada les perdonáis, y os constituís en jueces, a menudo severos, sin preguntaros si estaríais satisfechos de que hicieran otro tanto con vosotros. ¿Acaso la indulgencia no es también caridad? Los que sólo podéis hacer la caridad indulgente, hacedla al menos, pero hacedla con grandeza.

porque no hay fe inalterable sino la que puede mirar frente a frente a la razón en todas las edades de la humanidad".

perdonar las ofensas es reconocer que uno se vuelve mejor. Perdonad, pues, amigos míos, a fin de que Dios os perdone, porque sois duros, exigentes, inflexibles, y si además tenéis rigor por una ligera ofensa, ¿cómo queréis que Dios olvide, cuando todos los días tenéis gran necesidad de indulgencia?

Quando se vê um fato que não se compreende, e quanto mais extraordinário ele é, mais suspeitas desperta e mais o pensamento se esforça para lhe dar uma causa vulgar; se ele, porém, for compreendido, é logo admitido por ter uma razão de ser, desaparecendo assim o maravilhoso e o sobrenatural

Save your anger to fight injustice. Forgive the rest.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them go about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

how ignorant he was; how childlike … He was simply beyond analysis; so simple

Lincoln was "the first great man that I talked with in the United States freely who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, or the difference of color."92 Nor did Lincoln mean

Elusive reality does not discourage Umpire Two. We don't have to fully perceive or understand the underlying nature of our world to negotiate it well. Our senses and reasoning powers evolved as they did because they work just fine in the everyday, nonphilosophical business of survival. Mental constructs of reality are imperfect, but indispensable, ways to organize the otherwise bewildering phenomena of the world.

It is good to know and use the DSM definitions, but not to reify or worship them.31,32

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club's worth of speeches.

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.