Quotes about Understanding

We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Yes—but your luck will come more at the end of life than at the beginning, because the other sort of people won't understand the way your mind works. They will start by thinking you dreamy and romantic, and then they'll be surprised to discover that you are really hard and heartless, they'll be quite wrong both times—but they won't ever know it, and you won't know it at first, and it'll worry you.

Men of science spend much time and effort in the attempt to disentangle words from their metaphorical and traditional associations;

But once you've got the How, the Why drives it home.

Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly. "Mr. Kirk, you're a man after my own heart.

It is at this point we begin to understand what St. Hilary means in saying of the Trinity: "Eternity is in the Father, form in the Image and use in the Gift.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.