quotations about understanding
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
FRANCIS BACON
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Novum Organum
Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American
Cry out for insight and understanding. Search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure.
BIBLE
Proverbs 2:3-4
Be it assembling a model airplane, baking a cake or choosing flowers and shrubs for the garden, reading and understanding is necessary to achieve success. Most people would think that nothing could be simpler than reading the picture tag slipped in the side of a pot at a garden center's display, but without understanding, simple instructions can lead to failure.
LEEANN BARTON
"In the Garden: Understanding Labels", Stillwater News Press, April 23, 2017
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
MARIE CURIE
attributed, Our Precarious Habitat
You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything ... and know that we don't, that's the important part.
NOAM CHOMSKY
interview in Cardiff, Wales, UK, March 11, 2011
Understanding is wider than knowledge.
ELENA BORISOVA & OLGA SOULEIMANOVA
Understanding by Communication
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Plague
Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.
KIM HARRISON
Rules of the Game: Discover, Learn, Invent The Art of Speeding Up Your Career
The best way to understand something is to try to change it.
JEROME BRUNER
New York Times, June 7, 2016