Quotes About Understanding

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Samuel Butler (1835-1902) said, "The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too." 7

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

Love is a metaphysical concept; neither party knows the degree of one to the other.

Thus it is written in the Talmud: "He who translates a passage as it seems to be, is a deceiver.

The more one becomes identified with the Torah, the more does its significance expand beyond particular circumstance.

Let's talk sense to the American people.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain. On

I can't really do much with Nietzsche. He is more an artist than a philosopher; he doesn't have the crystal-clear understanding of Schopenhauer. Of course, I value Nietzsche as a genius. He writes possibly the most beautiful language that German literature has to offer us today, but he is not my guide.

To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.

I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect, and in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it.

I know people who read endlessly, book after book, from cover to cover, and yet I would not call them 'well-read.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of sifting and organizing the information they have acquired. They don't have the ability to distinguish between what is useful and what is useless... Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Ich kann nur für etwas kämpfen, das ich liebe. Ich kann nur lieben, was ich respektiere. Und um eine Sache zu respektieren, muss ich zumindest einiges darüber wissen.

Pochi capiscono che l'insegnamento della storia non consiste nel mandare a memoria e recitare pappagallescamente date e fatti. Studiare la storia significa cercare le forze le quali conducono agli effetti che noi abbiamo davanti ai nostri occhi come fatti storici contemporanei. L'arte dell'imparare è ricordare l'essenziale e dimenticare il contingente

Chi non aveva comprensione per la politica, perdeva per ciò stesso il diritto a ogni critica e a ogni protesta

purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other

In scrutinizing the past, we must be careful not to be overly impressed by external results that readily strike the eye, while ignoring the less visible causes of these results.

In order not to despair completely of the people with whom I lived, I had to separate the outward appearances of their lives from the reasons why they developed that way. Then I could bear everything without discouragement.

Each only hears the sound to which his innermost is attuned. Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg

Só se pode lutar pelo que se ama, só se pode amar o que se respeita e respeitar o que pelo menos se conhece.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.