Quotes About Understanding

One can not deny this merit to the Japanese—a great love for little children, and a talent for amusing them, for making them laugh, inventing comical toys for them, making the morning of their life happy; for a specialty in dressing them, arranging their heads, and giving to the whole personage the most fascinating appearance possible. It is the only thing I really like about this country: the babies and the manner in which they are understood.

Imagine a society entirely absorbed in its own historicity. It would be incapable of producing historians. Living entirely under the sign of the future, it would satisfy itself with automatic self-recording processes and auto-inventory machines, postponing indefinitely the task of understanding itself

in the American and French Revolutions. Equality was then understood primarily as a relation, as a way of making a society, of producing and living in common.

Research is the highest form of adoration

It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Humanity wants no more war.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? 'None,' replied Father Andrés. 'There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.

I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oil in studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Den som kun ta'r spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt Han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Blessed is the person who has passed the teachings of secrets. That person knows the source of life as well as his goal.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

El que habla, siembra. El que escucha, recoge.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.....

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Science is nothing but perception.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.