Quotes About Understanding

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

Deep learning doesn't shine.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Without questions, there is no learning.

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.