quotations about understanding
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
SEAMUS HEANEY
This Week Magazine, April 15, 2004
I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
CHINESE PROVERB
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another.
IMMANUEL KANT
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
We believe tolerance and understanding are intertwined in the path toward human progress.
PETER G. SZILAGYI
"The Road to Tolerance and Understanding", AAP News, May 3, 2017
As with any complex field, much of that first wave of better understanding is recognition of all the things that we don't know.
ANDREW METRICK
"Is Our Financial System Still at Risk?", Yale Insights, April 12, 2017
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The circle of our understanding
Is a very restricted area.
T. S. ELIOT
The Family Reunion
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
BIBLE
Philippians 4:7
Such understanding is attainable and festive joy is accordingly possible. Such is the character of binah, understanding; intellectual lucidity inspires luminous joy.
ELI RUBIN
"Joy, Understanding, and the Power of Mitzvot", Chabad, April 13, 2017
If the right path of human understanding is followed, then we will have heaven on earth.
EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER
The Magic Flute
What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Diary
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
NICHOLAS BLACK ELK
The Sacred Pipe
The particulars of flat-earth devotion are easy to ridicule. But it isn't difficult to understand why people are seduced by the tenor of the message. The flat-earth movement, in its own peculiar way, appeals to the arrogance of the ignorant, arousing a dormant sense of being meant for something special. It empowers you to overcome confusion and conquer stupidity -- not the hard way, by learning and understanding, but in a way that's much easier, by redefining the things you don't understand as wrong in the first place.
CALUM MARSH
"Why the flat-earth movement is the best symbol of the increasingly diminished value of truth and intelligence", National Post, April 21, 2017
Do not seek the because -- in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
ANAÏS NIN
Henry and June
I write with the belief that lack of understanding is the source of prejudice.
SIRI GALHENAGE
"Understanding Madness", The Island, April 28, 2017
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
journal, 1847
A best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.
NANCY WERLIN
Impossible