understanding quotes

• The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. (Francis Bacon) [nature/understanding]
• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. (Edmund Burke) [understanding/business]
• A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. (Samuel Butler) [understanding]
• Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [mind/understanding]
• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [understanding/time/hope-disappointment/loss]
• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [/understanding]
• Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [conversation/understanding/solitude/school]
• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [intellect/understanding/english/honesty]
• Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [enthusiasm/understanding]
• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. (Mahatma Gandhi) [enemies/understanding]
• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [understanding/thoughts/life/garden]
• The man of understanding finds everything laughable. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [understanding]
• To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [thing/understanding]
• There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude. (William Hazlitt) [understanding/nature/care/think]
• There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. (Eric Hoffer) [society/understanding]
• Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. (David Hume) [eloquence/desires/understanding]
• To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. (William James) [abnormal/understanding/normal]
• Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. (Samuel Johnson) [argument/find/understanding]
• I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. (Helen Keller) [/understanding/understanding/]
• Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [soul & body/understanding/mind]
• Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours. (Charles Lamb) [society/people/understanding]
• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ( Laozi) [darkness/darkness/understanding]
• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. ( Laozi) [power/understanding/willpower]
• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ( Laozi) [darkness/darkness/understanding]
• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. ( Laozi) [power/understanding/willpower]
• We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [age/understanding]
• Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. (John Locke) [understanding/men/reading]
• The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. (John Locke) [understanding/knowledge/knowledge]
• Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. (John Locke) [/mind/understanding]
• Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. (Martin Luther) [faith/understanding]
• I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. (Katherine Mansfield) [understanding]

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