Quotes about Understanding

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Life is our dictionary

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

a good reader makes a good book

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.