Quotes about Understanding

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

Where all is known, no narrative is possible.

You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd come. If he didnt you'd still have to figure that he knew what he was doin. I don't know what other description of God you could have. So what you end up with is that those he has spoke to are the ones that must of needed it the worst. That's not a easy thing to accept.

If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see.