Understanding Quotes - Page 7

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Then why do you want to know?"

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Trzymajcie się z dala od człowieka, który pracował w pocie czoła nad rozwiązaniem jakiejś zagadki, rozwiązał ją i stwierdził, że nie jest mądrzejszy niż przedtem - powiada Bokonon. - Przepełnia go bowiem mordercza pogarda do ludzi, którzy są równie głupi jak on, ale nie doszli do swojej głupoty równie ciężką pracą

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.

...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.