Quotes about Understanding

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.

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?