The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
In every trial Let understanding fight for you.
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
We fear only what we haven’t understood.
There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!
Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
To understand is to perceive patterns.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.
Being that can be understood is language.
There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready. He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us. . . but it's up to us to do the walking.
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
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