understanding Quotes

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.

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.