understanding Quotes

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.