understanding Quotes

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.