Quotes About Understanding

Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?

You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested. 47.

And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.

If you must be affected by other people's misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate and take offence.

Understand what words you use first, then use them.

you're unable to make someone change his views, recognize that he is a child, and clap as he does. Or if you don't care to act in such a way, you have only to keep quiet.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Wherefore it is a shame for man to begin and to leave off where the brutes do. Rather he should begin there, and leave off where Nature leaves off in us: and that is at contemplation, and understanding, and a manner of life that is in harmony with herself. See then that ye die not without being spectators of these things.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

reconciliation. Remember that you are friends, you've known each for other a long time, and the relationship is worth keeping.

The whole point of learning is to live out the teachings.

If you didn't learn these things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them for?

Don't mistake your assumptions for the truth.

Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Times relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise

Whenever misfortune befalls you, ask yourself how you would react if it were someone else in the same situation.

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.

A fool cannot be convinced or even compelled to renounce his folly.

But God has introduced man to be a spectator of God and of his works; and not only a spectator of them, but an interpreter. For this reason it is shameful for man to begin and to end where irrational animals do; but rather he ought to begin where they begin, and to end where nature ends in us; and nature ends in contemplation and understanding, and in a way of life conformable to nature. Take care then not to die without having been spectators of these things.

Whoever yields to fate becomes wise, by learning the laws of heaven. —Euripides

What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.

Cómo se llama a los que hacen caso de cualquier apariencia? — Locos