quotations about understanding
I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
CHINESE PROVERB
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
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
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?
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
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
What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Diary
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
The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
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
I write with the belief that lack of understanding is the source of prejudice.
SIRI GALHENAGE
"Understanding Madness", The Island, April 28, 2017
Tolerance and understanding are guideposts on the upward path toward improving the human condition, whereas intolerance and ignorance lead to a downward spiral of destruction and despair.
PETER G. SZILAGYI
"The Road to Tolerance and Understanding", AAP News, May 3, 2017
The circle of our understanding
Is a very restricted area.
T. S. ELIOT
The Family Reunion
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
NICHOLAS BLACK ELK
The Sacred Pipe
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
What most contributes to mutual understanding is sharing that which makes us human.
SOUAD T. ALI
"ASU faculty, students work to combat misunderstandings between Arab, American cultures", Arizona State University, May 5, 2017
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
A best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.
NANCY WERLIN
Impossible
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Choke
To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.
BIBLE
Proverbs 19:8