Understanding Quotes
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home"
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance"
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows"
"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs"
"A word to the wise is infuriating"
"I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing"
"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life."
"You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it."
"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction."
"Trust that there is more than one way to see something. Trust that there is more than one way to be"
"The best way to help people change is to help them understand who they are, how they work, and why their work matters"
"He said, 'It's all in your head,' and I said, 'So's everything,' but he didn't get it"
"Science is the poetry of reality."
"The more you know, the sadder you get."
"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be."
"Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?"
"Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom"
"Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind."
"The more you know, the more you see."