Quotes about Understanding
For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.
— Aristotle
Learning begins at the level of the learner.
— Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. Nicomachean Ethics
— Aristotle
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is not easy to express the inexpressible
— Arthur Conan Doyle
What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, he answered.
— Arthur Conan Doyle