#Understanding Quotes

“Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.”

“O most delicate fiend!Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?”

“Hear the meaning within the word.”

“For mine own part, it was Greek to me.”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

“Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.”

“But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.”

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

“The field cannot be seen from within the field.”

“No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.”

“Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.”

“The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.”

“Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.”

“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”

“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”

“Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.”

“I am sure,Though you can guess what temperance should be,You know not what it is.”

“I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.”

“Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.”

“Under every deep a lower deep opens.”

“Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.”

“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.”

“I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.”

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”

“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.”

“By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.”

“An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.”

“Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.”

“The key to every man is his thought.”

“Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.”

“You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”

“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”

“Close the language-door,and open the love-window”

“Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.”

“Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.”

“There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.”

“Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.”

“All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.”

“In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.”

“Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!”

“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.”

“The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star”

“The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”

“Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.”

“An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.”

“Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.”

“It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.”

“The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.”