Understanding Quotes

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees " "Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed" "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present " "I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you" "The beauty of the cosmos is that it lies in the magnificent potentials of life to understand it" "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth" "When you judge another you do not define them you define yourself" "Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth" "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding" "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" "Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment—the moment when a man knows forever more who he is."