Understanding Quotes

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." "God glorifies Himself toward the creatures also in two ways: 1. By appearing to their understanding. 2. In communicating Himself to their hearts, and in their rejoicing and delighting in, and enjoying, the manifestations which He makes of Himself" "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." "A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers" "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason There is nothing higher than reason" "There is a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something" "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing-- that's what counts" "A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain." "Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike. " "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility" "Wisdom is only found in truth" "Go beyond tolerance to acceptance" "When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen" "I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all" "One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake." "It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view" "It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring"