understanding Quotes

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.